Christine

“It’s not that I’m unaware of the suffering and the soon-to-be-more suffering in the world, it’s that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“We clump together in our sorrow. In joy we may wander off in our separate directions, but in sorrow we prefer to hold hands.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives- or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Why did I look like this, when in my head I looked completely different? Who was that woman with the grey hair and the wrinkles? I didn’t have either of those things, when had that happened?”
― Maddie Please, Old Friends Reunited