Karis Briscoe

“That’s where they were taking her, to a street called Heaven… whoever named (it that) certainly had a healthy since of irony. Not that it was a living hell. It wasn’t. But it sure as hell wasn’t heaven either”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Hawkes began slowly. “It takes a great deal to trust the future after one is acquainted with loss.” “It feels impossible, for longer than is comforting. And then too tentative to trust.” “It does. But it seems that sword pierced Christ so that we always have a future. Even one different than planned.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5

“There is no end to this tunnel,’ said Phyllis - and indeed it did seem very, very long.
‘Stick to it,’ said Peter; ‘everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.’

Which is quite true, if you come to think of it, and a useful thing to remember in seasons of trouble - such as measles, arithmetic, impositions, and those times when you are in disgrace, and feel as though no one would ever love you again, and you could never- never again- love anybody.”
― E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

“My mother always felt that Christmas -- a proper Christmas -- was meant to delight every sense”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5