Ashley

“She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.”
― Jedediah Berry

“Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.”
― Andrew Solomon, A Stone Boat

“In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Story Sisters

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers