Bethany

“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

“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 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 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