Bethany

“I worked it out sitting here. Maybe that’s the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don’t get to keep them.”
There was a silence before he spoke again.
“Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“I think we just keep going on. We keep doing what we always do and someday it'll feel right again.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“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

“We can’t know why we are dying in the same way we can’t know why we are living. Living and dying are both complete mysteries, and toy can’t know either until you have done both.”
“That’s poetic. And ironic.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot