Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. It is the world outside that box that gives me trouble.
“Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an unvisited headstone.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“Perhaps when it comes to it, no one is just the worst thing they ever did.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
“The infinite variety of the human condition precludes arbitrary definition.”
― The Children Act
― The Children Act
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