Judy Collins

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Grief is like a series of bombs exploding, one after another. Every hour, a new detonation. Shock after shock after shock.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

“Personally, I’ve come to believe that theories are of small value when it comes to actually living your life, to making all the hard decisions you have to make and then dealing with the consequences of those decisions.”
― Randall Silvis, Only the Rain

“Spin and die, To live again a butterfly.”
― Randall Silvis, Only the Rain