Betsy Coneway

“She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of string and a paperclip lying in a dish.”
― Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die

“يجب على المرء أن يقول ما هو حقيقي، وعندما يتحدث يمسك لسانه ولا ينطق أبداً بالضغائن، او يتهكم بطريقة لاذعة.”
― Sophocles, فيلوكتيتس

“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Later on after the war was over the women were to find this constantly; the men who had actually been in the thick of battle never opened their mouths about it, refused to join the ex-soldiers’ clubs and leagues, wanted nothing to do with institutions perpetuating the memory of war.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds