Ella Kurki

“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

“When you are broken, you run. But you don't always run away. Sometimes, helplessly, you run towards.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, though you can put your hand out to where things were and feel that tense, shining dullness of the space where the memories are.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends