Gina

“She deserved to enjoy a different version of her husband now, one who was bettering himself to keep making her happy. That’s what everyone should be doing, wasn’t it? Not necessarily physically, but just in general. Consistently trying to become the best versions of themselves and not giving up, because that was what you owed the person you loved.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Night Bus

“Please don't let someone else take the credit for that, even if it's just you giving them that credit yourself.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Night Bus

“Like one day you might see this photo,” he said, nodding toward his screen. “And you might feel nothing too. She might feel like a stranger to you. Someone from your distant memory who you once used to know. And it might hurt to hear that now, but it won’t then. You won’t even notice. She’ll pass you and you’ll go ‘oh there’s Sophie’ and that’ll be it. No pain. No pang in your chest. No longing or aching desire. Just . . . nothing. And that, my friend, is a mended heart. You don’t believe me, I know, but I’ve lived it. It happens.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Night Bus

“The purpose of life is to be happy and it is the mind that exerts the greatest influence over us. How it is always possible to transform ourselves. How everything comes down to love. And how great love, and great achievements, involve great risk.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Night Bus