Wendy

“We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“out there, grows the tree that will be the tree that will make your coffin. you must hope it is small only a seedling, only sap but it might be tall by now stretching its branches like arms into the sky. if I knew where it was, I would chop it down. I would return to the forest again and again with my axe, never resting, so that you might live forever.”
― Marianne Cronin, Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love

“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury. Some need its constant presence to even be aware of its antithesis. Others become so preoccupied with it that they go into the waiting room long before it has announced its arrival. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen