Britt

“It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does. It can hurt to walk down a hallway or open the fridge. It hurts to put on a pair of socks, to brush your teeth. Food tastes like nothing. Colors go flat. Music hurts, and so do memories. You look at something you’d otherwise find beautiful—a purple sky at sunset or a playground full of kids—and it only somehow deepens the loss. Grief is so lonely this way.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“God,' he said, voice deep, raspy. I fought a smile. 'Are you praying to me, Gus?”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.”
― Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming