Deirdre K

“Because in February the days were really getting longer and you could see it, if you really looked. You could see how at the end of each day the world seemed cracked open and the extra light made its way across the stark trees, and promised. It promised, that light, and what a thing that was.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again

“Your sons weren’t made to like you. That’s what grandchildren are for.”
― Jane Smiley, Ordinary Love and Good Will

“Ageism is the only self-correcting prejudice, isn’t it?”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“In love everything changes, and continues changing all the time. There is no stillness, no stopped clock of the heart in which the moment of happiness holds forever, but only the constant whirring forward motion of desire and need, rising and falling, falling and rising, full of doubts then certainties that moment by moment change and become doubts again.”
― Niall Williams, Four Letters of Love