Courtney Autumn

“There are all sorts of losses people suffer- from the small to the large. You can lose your car keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.”
― Karen Marie Moning

“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed; it was past 8:30 and still light.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I have never pictured my own wedding. I do want to get married. I think it's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos -- you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life..”
― Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays