Hui Min

“I guess that's what life should feel like; setting off on a long car ride with all your worries and hopes strapped around you, the people who love you most frantically waving you off as you go.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“Why did a woman's voice have to be a chorus, to count?”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“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

“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