Beth

“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist,’ Ruth had said. ‘We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“An absence of fear, Elisa realizes, can be mistaken for happiness, but it isn’t the same thing. Not even close.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

“It’s hard to find Happy, isn’t it? It lands only briefly before it flies off, like a butterfly.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea