Christina

“You are in every line I have ever read.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.”
― Eda J. Vor, Like Two Opposite Things

“Anger feels so much better than sadness, cleaner somehow and more definite. But then, when the anger fades, the sadness comes right back again, the same as ever.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“At the end, he said, No metaphors! Nothing is like anything else. Except he said to me before he said that, Make your hands a hammock for me. So there was one. He said, Not even the rain—he quoted the poet—not even the rain has such small hands. So there was another. At the end, I wanted to comfort him. But what I said was, Sing to it. The Arab proverb: When danger approaches, sing to it. Except I said to him before I said that, No metaphors! No one is like anyone else. And he said, Please. So—at the end, I made my hands a hammock for him. My arms the trees.”
― Amy Hempel, Sing to It: New Stories