Sometimes you lie to protect people, but when the truth comes to light it hurts twice as much. But sometimes if you don't lie, you rob them of any happiness at all.

A book about mourning, about being funny about it, and about learning to live alongside it

To love with abandon is a rarity. Belle Burden's memoir of marriage and divorce didn't win me over, but it left me thinking about the power we hand the people we love, and whether we can ever take it back.

"I want to start by saying I read this book in two days, that is the fastest time I have ever read a book.”

"It shows you how happiness can merely be a still image curated for a post, or directed in video format, when the reality is so dry and lacking of joy it hurts to witness, or to read."

Real happiness will only exist once one learns to harvest it from their current circumstances and mine it out of the ordinary days.

A Review: Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave

Complicated sibling relationships. Revisiting the past is the only way forward. Messy endings.