Darcie

“When your mom is gone, the thing no one ever tells you is that the little compass needle inside keeps spinning around and around, never finingt North.”
― Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand

“Right after her funeral I felt the way you feel when it suddenly starts raining hard, and you look around and find no place to take shelter.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“My beautiful mom has always been there for me through every crisis, heartache and through all the good times in my life.”
― Debbie Sue Goodman, Still Single

“It all came back. Every bone in my body turned hot. Then I couldn’t make it stop. All those memories. Whatever kept them stored away broke. There was a rush of sensation through me, then nothing. And for days afterward, I’d get overwhelmed with a sound or the way my shirt rubbed against my arm or a smell. Like my body remembered and reminded the rest of me.”
― Ronlyn Domingue, The Mercy of Thin Air