Jenelle

“When he was sad, he never used it as an occasion to make anyone else sad.”
― Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

“Miracle” was the word Jonathan had pronounced, and they tested it on their own tongues. They were used to it in the Bible, where it meant impossible things that happened an impossibly long time ago in places so far away from here that they might as well not exist. Here in the inn it applied to the laughably improbable chance that the boat mender would ever pay his slate in full: now that would be a miracle all right. But tonight, at winter solstice in the Swan at Radcot, the word had a different weight.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“A liquid rose-gold warmth— whatever color is on the opposite end of the spectrum from the color of aloneness—fils me briefly.”
― Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

“I think if what you'd do for your last day on Earth doesn't look like a pretty normal day for you, you probably need to reexamine your life.”
― Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days