Hui Min

“You couldn't protect the people you loved—that was the lesson of history, and it struck him therefore that to love someone meant to be opened up to a radically heightened level of suffering.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“I'd always written how grief was hollow. How it was a vast cavern of nothing.

But I was wrong.

Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn't the absence of everything you lost—it was the culmination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweet, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn.”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“And I could take solace in the idea that transience—not endurance—is what makes connections between people special.”
― Sarah Adler, Mrs. Nash's Ashes

“Jodie felt a wave of sympathy for Tish, who wanted such a simple thing. Time. Cheryl's time, specifically. And time was so limited, wasn't it? You ran out of it eventually.”
― Amy T. Matthews, Someone Else's Bucket List