Hui Min

“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

“We can't have change without loss.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Workbook: A Toolkit for Editing Your Story and Changing Your Life

“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