Emily McElroy

“I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“It is one story among many. Every bone tells a life. Every person lost was a world.”
― Alexa Hagerty, Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

“Making a dessert is nothing less than crafting a smile.”
― B. Dylan Hollis, Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip

“three generations of women sit around the enormous kitchen table--some hunched over cups of coffee, some hunched over cups of tea. despite our differences, we are all laughing so hard that the thunder outside must compete with us. she can't sit here with us anymore & I'm sure we can all feel the heaviness of her absence, but even when every chair is taken & everyone else has to stand, it still feels like there will always be a space for her.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One