“Sometimes belief is more powerful than truth,” she said. “Sometimes imagination rules logic and wisdom.”
― Soulmarked
― Soulmarked
“It’s not those concrete events. It’s the afterwards. It’s the huge, gaping absence of where the person used to be. This enormous, palpable, permanent, irrevocable absence that kills you. The huge hole where a person, a life, was. It isn’t gone. It’s still there, it’s just empty. Forever. That’s the part that undid me.”
― The Herbalist
― The Herbalist
“full of memory and grace.”
― What Happened to Lucy Vale
― What Happened to Lucy Vale
“My job is bigger than its tasks. It can create my daughters’ future.”
― Well Behaved Wives
― Well Behaved Wives
“Accepting good fortune was the hardest thing for me to learn, and I still slip. Still look over my shoulder, looking for the bad, waiting for it, and in a completely unhealthy way, hoping for it. When the bad shows up, I can exhale. Then I know what I’m up against.”
― Broken Bayou
― Broken Bayou
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