Amanda

“he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place