Donna

“To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they’re too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don’t recognise inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out; to become speedily found when they are lost.
But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honour what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that disappears and temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness.”
― Heidi Priebe

“Never forget where you come from, but don’t allow it to define you.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“You know what I believe?” Monae said, and he wasn’t sure he did. “I think you decide on someone and somewhere and that devotion is the sense it all makes. You choose someone and you try your best for them. I’ll take it if there’s more, but that’s enough for me. That’s the way I love you. That’s the way I love this place.”
― Kelsey Ronan, Chevy in the Hole

“Serenity is what we get when we quit hoping for a better past.”
― Kelsey Ronan, Chevy in the Hole