Kerry

“Marriage is work, enormous work, because it’s a living entity that needs everlasting attention. It will push you and bend you and test you, and if you’re not prepared for any of that, it will shatter you.”
― Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor

“I would not have the world be cruel to you,” she emphasized. “I would not have Vincent Astor be cruel to you. But if—when—those things happen, I would not have you be cruel in return. Kinder hearts are stronger, I think.”
― Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor

“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“There are certain people in this world who have the ability to make you feel as if you’re the only person in the universe who matters to them.”
― Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor