Mandy

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I need love, I've never felt more in need of it than now. I feel so terribly terribly unhappy.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
― Jamie Anderson

“You can’t nice your way to being loved.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora