Peggy

“You’d be surprised how people treat you differently when you’re older. You don’t feel any different, but it’s as though you fade away, like a Polaroid picture in reverse.”
― Anna Johnston, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

“You’ll never regret being kind even when people aren’t kind to you.”
― Anna Johnston, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

“They say that time heals, yet the ache still caught his breath. Grief is often invisible to the outside world—Fred was like still water whose reflection mirrored the sun but concealed dark and murky depths underneath. He often wondered how his body still held together when his soul had broken into a million pieces.”
― Anna Johnston, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

“Why do we hold on to the bad things and forget the good?”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark