Tracy Wild

“That’s the very hardest thing to understand about death: nothing. That the world shrinks without him, because instead of him there is just emptiness. The vibration of his laughter, the smell of his skin, his phone number. How can someone who meant everything to Ted become… nothing at all? It’s the incomprehensibility of death that drives people mad, so that we forget how to breathe and how to walk, until we spend whole nights stumbling about in dark rooms, calling and calling, trying to understand how there can be a phone number that no longer belongs to anyone.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Being a parent is so strange, all our children's pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Sooner or later pain becomes too great for fear and when the people's fear has gone the regime will have to go.”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“But I would offer you some advice. When you cannot get what you want, it is wiser sometimes to want what you can get.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, The Reckoning