Heather

“our life is short, we don’t live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“The way I see it," Bekah says, "you've got to do the things that make you feel good. Being active--doing things, making things better in whatever ways I can--that makes me feel good. Being passive--waiting around for other people to do things for me or to me--that makes me feel shitty. So, feel shitty or feel good. I choose good.”
― Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of

“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House