Catherine

“I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“It’s a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped so closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you’re brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“For me, becoming a griever looks like instant membership in some kind of cosmic motorcycle club, a crew learning how to live with the kind of mind-bending reality that the horizon line is ever expanding; that, despite the heartbreak of certain circumstances and the overwhelmingness of life's hardest chapters, you can find the appreciation, the focus, the curiosity, and the friendship to keep riding the road ahead. This cosmic motorcycle club you're now in is a group of people with a knowing gaze; think less pilly sweater and more weathered leather, less curling up for tea for a good cry and more clinking glasses with people who get it, in the round.”
― Carla Fernandez, Renegade Grief: A Guide to the Wild Ride of Life after Loss