Hope and Heart
For when you need gentle reminders that healing is possible and hope is worth holding onto. Stories that hold you gently while you learn how to hold yourself.
by Gabrielle Zevin“‘What is a game?’ Marx said. ‘It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, ever.’”Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
by Alison Espach“Feeling melancholy is not the same as being depressed. You don’t always have to fix it.”The Wedding People
by Rufi Thorpe“I didn’t know that love was supposed to come from within me, and that as long as I loved others, the strength and warmth of that love would fill me, make me strong.”Margo's Got Money Troubles
by Fredrik Backman“We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we're more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”Anxious People
by Emily Habeck“All the hours he spent theorizing about magic seemed so naive now. The main ingredient in transformation was not magic, it was pain.”Shark Heart
Say You'll Remember Me
by Abby Jimenez“The small memories are the fabric of your life, the ones so inconsequential that you don't even remember them. You just remember how you felt when you were making them.”
by Emily Henry“My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.”Happy Place
by Abby Jimenez“Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance or common sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants.” Part of Your World
by Rainbow Rowell“The whole point of fanfiction is that you get to play inside somebody else's universe. Rewrite the rules. Or bend them. The story doesn't have to end.”Fangirl
by Rainbow Rowell“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”Eleanor & Park
by Mary H.K. Choi“I like knowing that you exist. It doesn't make me feel any less lonely, because life is lonely, but it makes me feel a lot less alone.”Emergency Contact