Eleanor

“But I think of life rather like a long road we walk in one direction. By and large a lonesome walk out in the wildness of hills and wind. Mountains. Snow. And sometimes there is someone to come along and walk with you for a stretch, and sometimes (this is what I’m getting to) sometimes you see in the distance some lights and it heartens you, the lone house or maybe a village and you come into the warmth of that stopover and go inside.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“When you think about it, everyone's life's a prison - of days, sort of. The trick is to get comfortable in it, I reckon. Find your freedom inside whatever your prison is.”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-Flung Life

“...and time runs only one way.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“When the world throws at you nothing but stones, maybe to survive you simply become stone yourself.”
― William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember