Emily

“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”
― Tolkein

“I was in error when I saw him as fixed and stable and thought I would have him forever. He was never fixed, nor stable, but always just a passing, temporary energy-burst.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“Though on the surface it seemed every person was different, this was not true.

At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.

We must try to see one another in this way.

As suffering, limited beings --

Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.”
― George Miller