Kathy

“Everything’s a lot tougher when it’s for real. That’s when you choke. When it’s for real.”
― Stephen King, It

“Stories teach us to not give up hope because there are times in our own journey when we mustn’t give up hope. They teach endurance because in our lives we are meant to endure. They carry messages that are older than the words themselves, messages that reach beyond the page.”
― Camron Wright, Rent Collector

“childhoods are like soap bubbles; you get only a few seconds to enjoy them.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“No one, no one really knows loss until it’s someone you love. The deep-down kind of love that holds on to your bones and digs itself right in under your fingernails, as hard to budge as the years of compacted earth. And when it’s gone … it’s as if it’s been ripped from you. Raw and exposed, you stand dripping blood all over the good feckin’ carpet. Half-human, half-dead, one foot already in the grave.”
― Anne Griffin, When All Is Said