Genny

“You have to laugh, Joan. If you don't find things to laugh about, you'll find nothing to make you happy. It's cold and all but hopeless, sure. No one can deny that. But one day, the sun will shine again, and the hunger and pain will be over as it was before. We don't know how we'll get through, but we will somehow.”
― Connie Lapallo, The Sun Is But A Morning Star

“Few people lived, as she did, with the constant feeling of having been born at the wrong time and in the wrong place. And fewer still realized, as she did, that all that was worth admiring, all that was beautiful and sublime, seemed to be vanishing with hardly a trace.”
― Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim: A Novel

“... Both are terrible, hopeless situations where fate has wrested all control from your hands. Yet you two dared confront fate, to say. 'We're not done yet.' You said to fate, 'You may control our circumstance but not what we think, not who we are, not how we react.' Fate gives to those who challenge it. It must. To be so bold is remarkable, whether you know it or not.”
― Connie Lapallo, The Sun Is But A Morning Star

“Dearest friends keep one warm, howe'er bitter the weather.”
― Connie Lapallo, The Sun Is But A Morning Star