Amber

“Garvy died a year after retiring. This place had been his oxygen. They reckoned he suffocated doing nothing.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“It means everything. That's all.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Eleven years have passed since Holger left here, and at every A-team game, even when the rink is sold out, there are always two empty seats in the stands.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“I found, tucked between two books, two envelopes, our names in his handwriting. I opened my envelope, my heart thrumming, and saw my name - Dear Harold - and read his note from decades ago, from the day of his adoption and cried, sobbed, really, and then I slipped the disc into the computer and heard his voice, and although I would have cried anyway for its beauty, I cried more because it was his. And then Julia came home and found me and read her note and we cried all over again.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life