Elicia

“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

“It’s a question of passion. The majority may not accept something, but as long as there are some who do, the existence of that thing – whatever it may be – is protected.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

“I kissed her forehead and felt glad for her life—so odd and singular, so strangely overlapped with my own—and glad for her death, the only one I had ever known to be correct. “Go as a river,” I whispered to her, as Wil might have done, and, I swear, I felt her spirit rise.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“When I think of all the things through history that people have believed that ultimately proved untrue, it seems silly to think we know anything for sure now. But maybe that’s the human condition: we’ll believe in anything if it means believing in something.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life