Unloved

by Katy Regnery

I refuse to be embarrassed about loving romance novels. Anyone with half a brain loves romance novels, and the rest are lying.

There is no me without you.

“Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.”

“No kindness is ever wasted.

There is such profound relief in being understood—in finally being known in the inexplicable way that can come only from empathy, from one broken person fathoming the grief of another.

I huddle into the chair and pull the blanket tighter because daydreams are lovely, uncomplicated things and crashing back to earth hurts.