Jeffery

“He wants to tell her that when things vanish they become something else, in death we rise again in the blades of grass, the splitting bodies of seeds.”
― Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector

“Promise me, if this is the end of us, let it be the beginning of the revolution.”
― Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb

“Later still, the war memorials would sprout from the earth, dwelling not on the loss, but on what the loss had won, and what a fine thing it was to be victorious. “Victorious and dead,” some muttered, “is a poor sort of victory.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Reality smacked like a bucket of ice water.”
― Marilyn Dalla Valle, Westwind Secrets