Elicia

“Readers make their own personal connections to words, irrespective of the writer's intentions, and each reader gains something unique.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

“He would teach me how true a life emptied of all but its essentials could feel and that, when you got down to it, not much mattered outside the determination to go on living.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“There is a kind of sadness that transcends sadness, that runs like hot syrup into every crevice of your being, beginning in the heart then oozing into your very cells and bloodstream, so that nothing-not earth or sky or even your own palm ever looks the same. This is the sadness that changes everything.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“Silence and sadness are not the same things. And I wish more people understood that, is all.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life