Elicia

“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

“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

“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

“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