There is no logic to grief. - N. K. Jemisin

It’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.

The child in her wanted to do as she pleased, cling to impossible hopes. The woman in her wanted to make sound decisions, succeed even if it meant sacrifice. The woman would win; that was inevitable. But the child would not go quietly.

I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.