Emilie

“A parent can’t write the end of a child’s story. If she’s lucky, she will never even know it. It’s for the child to figure out. I hope you are finding your own words out there in my sky. I think of you every second.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“Joan knew then that Donna was not an idiot. And the Beatles were not nonsense. And that there had always been a place for her in this world. She had just been walking past it over and over again, never noticing that there was an unmarked door, waiting for her to discover it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“When young you were free of your body because it only brought you pleasure.”
― George Saunders, Vigil

“He’d gotten five stitches in his forehead, and once the wound closed up and healed and he got sun on his face and tanned, it was barely visible. Just one of the many scars they’d gifted him.”
― Kristen Arnett, With Teeth