Mary

“… and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“The calmness of the boy. She’d never known anybody to speak or move so steady. So sure and easy. Just being near him, and not even that close, had eased her tightness. For the first time since Ma and Jodie left, she breathed without pain; felt something other than the hurt. She needed this boat and that boy.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“There was still beauty in this world, even if some days it took every bit of strength and obstinacy to find it.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars