“For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again.

And this cleaning

process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much
persistence. And so much patience. But every process has an end and an appointed term. Your
healing will come… And like all created things, your worldly pain will die.”
— Yasmin Mogahed

“You have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and
they abandon you.”
— Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight
and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go.
Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“I think about how quickly things have changed for me. But that’s the personality of change, isn’t it?
When it’s slow, it’s called growth; when it’s fast, it’s change. And God, how things change: some
things, nothings, anythings, everythings … all the things change.”
— David Arnold, Mosquitoland