Ava

“A weird thing I'm learning about grief - grief in all its forms - is that you can feel almost everything once. You'd think all those tears, all that laughter, all that deep sadness and even deeper hope would still the lungs and stop the heart.
But no. It's sort of the opposite.
And that's the funny thing about wishes - only when one comes true do you realize the full scope of that wish. What you really wanted. The beauty of it. The complexity.
The cost." -Grace”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How to Make a Wish

“We are not above mistakes, not stronger than death, but we sure know how to love. Even if it isn't always perfect, especially when it's a little messy, we know how to love one another fiercely. With everything we have.”
― Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

“Some men's childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Billions of humans, all of us scurrying around the planet, falling in and out of love with each other for no reason explicable by logic or numbers or common sense. How unaccountably strange we are.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird