This story is about strength that doesn’t look like every one else’s. It’s about finding your fire when the world thinks you are broken.
“There were days in life that rolled by and were never really thought of again. And then there were days that were so beloved or important that they contained inside them everything that came after. Russian doll days, that were always inside the expanding future.”
― The Midnight Train
― The Midnight Train
“Books,’ she once said, ‘are mirrors for the soul. So if you catch a glimpse of someone’s soul, you will know the mirror for them.”
― The Midnight Train
― The Midnight Train
“She told me that a child needs to hear and truly understand only three phrases from their father as they grow up. ‘I love you.’ ‘I will help.’ And, ‘I don’t know.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
“Easier to despise than understand. Easier to mock than empathise.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
“she wanted to drink a Negroni in the sun, to have her bones warmed. She wanted apricity–a word she’d recently learned from a lexicographer on Radio 4 that meant the feeling of the sun warming her back.”
― Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk
― Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk
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