5 Quotes by Emily Foster

I—I don’t drink,” said Shina. The Captain clicked her tongue. “Well, I don’t know your life,” she said, “but that might be part of your greater overall problem.

Spring has finally come and the air has that fresh, muddy smell from rain earlier today. I think the sun should never set before eight p.m. There should be a rule. “Petrichor,”Charles says, walking beside me, his hands in his pockets and his satchel over his shoulder. The word for that smell you’ve been inhaling as if it’ll get you high. It’s called petrichor. The stones release oils when they get wet, and that’s what the smell is.

Losing control is how you prove you care more about me than you do about being in control, you selfish asshole.

To love someone is to love the process of them, not just the way they are but the way they grow. To witness a human’s personal evolution is to worship at the altar of their true selfhood. And all you have to do is listen well. Listen to what they say, what they don’t say, and the context in which they’re saying it. Keep listening. And then listen some more.

And I realized that until we have healed, pain is how we bear loss in our bodies. Sometimes we mistake the pain for love, so we hold on to it, we stay there in the darkness, in the valley. Or we think that if it doesn’t hurt, it isn’t love. But when we allow ourselves to move through it and out of it... eventually we heal. And only when we experience the entire journey, through the suffering to wholeness, do we know the full scope of love.