“She was wiser than she’d been before. Now she knew how fragile life and love were. Maybe she would love him for only this day, or maybe for only the next week, or maybe until she was an old, old woman. Maybe he would be the love of her life … or her love for the duration of this war … or maybe he would only be her first love. All she really knew was that in this terrible, frightening world, she had stumbled into something unexpected. And she would not let it go again.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“Sadness is what holds our bones in place.”
― All My Puny Sorrows
― All My Puny Sorrows
“It should always make us happy to say that loving someone and being loved by someone is worth whatever price paid.”
― A Fall of Marigolds
― A Fall of Marigolds
“That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff's mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name.”
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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