Barbara

“She was one of a group of girls he’d observed bloom from scraggly weeds into tropical beauties who churned the air around them into a dense humidity.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Actions create reactions. When things start to happen, other things start to happen. But sometimes it seems there is no explanation as to why the things are happening – why all the buses are coming along at once – why life’s moments of luck and pain arrive in clusters. All we can do is observe the pattern, the rhythm, and then live it.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“A moment of authenticity when fate and blueprint collide and everything is not only possible, but within arm’s reach.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“Yes, there had been a void inside me, but voids were underrated. Voids were empty of love but also pain. Emptiness was not without its advantages. You could move around in emptiness.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time