crystallized ashes

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

The things that we bury can tell you a lot about who we are. The difference between a garden and a graveyard is only what we choose to put in the soil.

“That night I thought about how love comes paired with failures, apologies for deficiencies. The only remedy is compassion.”

The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. It's not the shattering itself that breaks you—it's the silence that follows, the quiet space where you realize there's nothing left to salvage. And in that moment, you know that you'll never be the same again. You'll build something new, perhaps, but it will never be what you lost.