Mary

“I can listen no longer in silence, I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul, I am half agony, half hope.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“In many ways, my father's grief hit me harder than anything else. It would be from the wreckage of this moment that he would reassemble the universe for us.”
― Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

“All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love