Bethany

“I think the same is true of dying. We can’t know why you are dying in the same way that we can’t know why you are living. Living and dying are both complete mysteries, and you can’t know either until you have done both.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“I wished I had been there when the bombs fell, to have opened my mouth and swallowed their ordinance. Then spit it all back at them.”
― Devin Murphy, The Boat Runner

“Lenni," she said softly, "you're the bravest person I know."
"Why?"
"You just are," she said, and the moment fell between us."
"Dying isn't brave," I said, "it's accidental. I'm not brave, I'm just not dead yet.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“She just wasn’t sure she had yet been to the place she was homesick for.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars