sophia

“For as long as I could remember, I had been apologising for existing, for trying to be who I was, to live the life I was meant to lead. Maybe this would be the last conversation I would ever have with Grant. Maybe not. Either way, I realized, I wasn't sorry I existed anymore. I deserved to live. I deserved to find love. I knew now-I believed now-that I deserved to be loved.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“Mom's told me more than once that she loves purple because it's this beautiful mix of blue's calm stability and red's fierce energy." -Grace”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“I had the sense that something in my life had ended, my image of myself as a whole or normal person maybe. I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn’t make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn’t make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful. Nothing would. I thanked my mother for the lift to the station and got out of the car.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“She would suddenly stop in front of that painting, and whatever she was saying or doing at that precise moment came to an abrupt halt in the presence of the colour yellow. It was her solace. Her inspiration and confessional.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man