Joy Gillespie

“In response, 'why did you go to overseas mission?'
'I reather say, I have failed to find a reason to stay.”
― James Gilmore

“We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on.”
And that’s how it was.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Every human being needs to know what she's fighting for. That was what they said. And she fought for what was good. For the children she never had. And Ove fought for her.
Because that was the only thing in this world he really knew.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.”
― John Banville, The Sea