Pip

“She laughs—it feels like a cloud slipping out her mouth, floating up to the sky.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“His expression morphs each time she pictures it. Sometimes he is benign, sometimes stern, almost maleficent. A word so close to magnificent, she thinks, sent off-course by maleness. But his expression is irrelevant. Far more important is the question of where he was going. And who might be waiting for him at the other end.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“Yet, there must be something else. She is suddenly gripped with such curiosity it feels primal. She needs to know: After the war, after the marriage, after the suicide—what happens next?”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Somewhere, during the past twenty years or so, I had forgotten the sheer beauty and the wonder of being alive, in a world teeming with life. I promised myself in that moment that I would do my utmost never to forget that again.”
― Beth Moran, How Not To Be A Loser