82 Quotes by Rachel Higginson

Our story was a complex piece of art that we worked on every day. It wasn’t always beautiful in the traditional sense, but it was captivating, and worthy and endless.

This story is about me learning to live again after love left my life.

I had never been out of the country before. And maybe this trip didn’t technically count because, well, America had officially imploded and I hadn’t needed a passport to cross the border, but I was more than a little disappointed we hadn’t run into a mariachi band yet. “Donde esta el Zombies?

Suddenly living in the Zombie apocalypse didn’t feel like the seventh circle of hell It felt possible and full of potential.

It’s okay to be sad, Mummy.” Lucy promised on a know-it-all whisper. “But don’t be sad all day. He only went on vacation. He wouldn’t leave us forever. He loves us too much.

That Friday morning, I stopped by Tractor Supply and picked up a twenty-five-pound salt block for $6.99. I made Wyatt take it over to him later that night. It had been as satisfying as I imagined it would be.

Someone created all of this, all of the beauty of the earth, all of the fragility of human life and all of the extraordinary existence of us. Choosing to believe in a god only when you are surrounded by death and destruction is to truly not know God at all.

I think you forget that I’m still alive. It’s like you don’t expect me to keep on existing now that I’m not in your life every day.

My mother was the person I loved most in this world. She was also the person that had messed me up the most.