Doreen

“It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Lila

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars