“Language is our portal to meaning-making, connection, healing, learning, and self-awareness. Having access to the right words can open up entire universes.”
Source: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“I know it was my choice.'
'Doesn't mean it was easy,' Edie whispers, tucking a strand of hair behind my ear. 'Doesn't mean it didn't hurt to choose.”
Source: Strangers Everywhere
“It doesn't matter anyway, we all bleed the same.”
Source: Strangers Everywhere
“And there they are, tears in his eyes. He has not wept for falling in love with another woman, but he weeps for the love that he lost.”
Source: Strangers Everywhere
“His gaze softens, 'Do you think anyone else wanted to slash Anita's tires or do you think it was just us?'
'Anyone with their head screwed on right will have slashed all four by now.'
Lawrence shakes his head. 'Three, doll face. Four is covered by insurance.'
We make another toast.”
Source: Strangers Everywhere
“I scream so loud that only Mother Nature and her crashing thunder can drown my cries. Maybe she too can recognise a pain only a Mother would understand.”
Source: Strangers Everywhere
“A man without trust might as well be dead.”
Source: Lord of Chaos
“My fingers reach the tuft of his thick hair, his sobs echoing through me. At least I will never know a world without him.”
Source: Strangers Everywhere
“The laughter of grief...How the void becomes dense, and emptiness becomes weighty. What an irony to see the vacant chair filled. Never to see the face again yet seeing it all around for that is the laughter of grief, the silenced torment...the thick, impassable grief...”
“I'd never seen Lana lose control. I won't say it wasn't frightening; but then, uncontained emotion is always distressing to be around, isn't it? Particularly when it's from someone you love.”
Source: The Fury