Karen

“I think we lost something else when we lost that crisp rhythm, some general shared belief that we could count on certain things.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

“Too often we try to avoid that scary place where we love so deep, so much, our hearts could break. But without the bitterness, we would never appreciate the sweetness.”
― Sara Hagerty, Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet: Tasting the Goodness of God in All Things

“I could spend most days looking for the golden moment ahead, when the gold is already in front of me. Available for every messy minute.”
― Sara Hagerty, Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet: Tasting the Goodness of God in All Things

“It gave me a feeling of temporary acceptance into that elite community, to stroll across the quad at his side. It also gave me my first faint quiver of sexual belonging, the elusive feeling that if I slipped my hand into his as we walked along, a door would fall open somewhere in the long wall of reality as I knew it, never to be closed again.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian