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“But we’re also friends, right?”
“What, even after all the mean stuff I’ve said to you?”
“Even after that.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“I watched her go. I’d miss her barking orders at me early in the morning, I’d miss her indignant sighs when we rode in the SUV together. I would just . . . miss living with her, as strange as that seemed. The realization streaked across my mind, unbidden, surprising me.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“Grief is like a deep, dark hole. It calls like a siren: Come to me, lose yourself here. And you fight it and you fight it and you fight it, but when you finally do succumb and jump down into it, you can’t quite believe how deep it is. It feels as if this is how you will live for the rest of your life, falling. Terrified and devastated, until you yourself die.
But that is the mirage.
That is grief’s dizzying spell.
The fall isn’t never-ending. It does have a ground floor.
Today, I cry for so long that I finally feel the floor under my feet. I find the bottom. And while I know the hole will be there forever, at least for now, I feel as if I can live inside it. I have learned its boundaries and its edges.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“And yeah, sometimes I just need to feel okay. And you make me feel that.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes