Meg

“Guilt like that, it's a sort of arrogance, you know? An assumption that everything is your own fault when that's clearly absurd.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Half Life of Valery K

“Every day, your first thought is not “I love him” but “How is he?” The world, overnight, rearranges itself into an obstacle course of terrors.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Sometimes you don't know you're going to throw a grenade until you've already pulled the pin.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“The way to not sink into self-pity and despair – the way to not die – was to look forward to things. Anything; the tinier the better, because then you were more likely to get it. The patterns of ice on the water barrels, the feeling of holding a hot mug. Anything to stop the onset of the terrible docility that came before you gave up. Collect enough bright things, and it was possible to have a good day.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Half Life of Valery K