Bells’s Reviews > Crown Me Yours > Status Update

“Pain is the price we pay for participating in life.”

God damn, every single quote

“We both know dying is easy. It’s a single moment. One decision, and then…it’s done. And you never have to feel the weight of what comes after.” She tilts her head. “But living for someone? Waking up every morning, even when it hurts, even when you can’t fathom to keep going?” The corner of her mouth twitches. “Try that. If you want to impress me.”

“I think it will feel like coming home.”

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"Because love and loss are on the same coin—one side warmth, one side ache—but the value never changes. And to carve out the grief would be to erase the love that made the memory worth living. A thousand times over."

beautifully said

"I have longed for a wife longer than I have had a name for longing."

"Grief is just love hiding in a mourning dress, piling up inside you because the person you want to give it to isn’t there to take it.”

loved this one 3

“What a waste of a perfectly good Tuesday”

Oh this man is funny too

"We wrap the dead with our hands steady and our mouths shut..."

Love the parallel between the start of the first book and this one