Aoife

“Opportunity did not knock until I built the door.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“Stop thinking about who you were when you were living the wrong life, William. You’re built for the life you’re living now.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“I didn’t expect”—she paused—“for it to be part of everything, every minute. I didn’t know that you could lose someone, and that meant you lost so much else.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful