Holly

“But sometimes when you put two very different people together, a kind of magic, an alchemy, occurs. Bea said I was like eggs and sugar, and she was flour and butter, and when you mixed us together, we were more than just the combination of our ingredients, we were the whole damn cake.”
― Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

“If I had to pick one person to be in my corner, it’d be you. Every time.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“The only way to be guaranteed of failure, dear boy, is not to try,’ said Iona. ‘Love is the greatest risk of all, but a life without it is meaningless.”
― Clare Pooley, The People on Platform 5

“A month after this, another postcard arrived from Rome, giving no address: 'Am writing in a day or two,' it said. That was six years ago.
So now I am writing to her.
When you read this, Sally - if you ever do - please accept it as a tribute, the sincerest I can pay, to yourself and to our friendship.
And send me another postcard.”
― Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin