Abby

“There is so much randomness to youth. The person assigned to share your room becomes your friend, the girl you pass on your way out the door becomes your wife, and from these random encounters our entire lives are built,”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“When the coroner's report comes, they learn she'd lived with a hole in the heart. That she probably never knew, but that, still, it is a miracle she lived to see eighty-eight. And they wonder again at what she gave to them. How she lived for them, and because of them. And in spite of everything.”
― Florence Knapp

“In dreams, there is sometimes the knowledge of knowledge, with- ut the knowledge itse|f And it's very like waking, with the knowl edge of the dream, but no clear recollection. Some phantasm, flirting its tail as it whips out of sight.”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“Someday, you’ll feel thankful to your mother,” he tells her. “But I want you to act thankful now.”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight