Rêve

“In moments like this, I'm brought face to face with the ruthlessness of life. One hill after another after another. Climbing at first with hope and then gradually in resignation. But life never goes easy. A foe without mercy or magnanimity. A losing battle. A fight that ends only with defeat.”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“Eventually this will happen to us. You will drop bits of our friendship here and there and eventually, I will stop picking us back up, picking you back up, putting us back together again. Eventually we might forget where we put it, this friendship of ours, and we will both let it fall through the cracks of a floorboard, forgotten in the memory of old mix tapes and letters boxed in an attic somewhere.”
― Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love

“There is a reason why morning follows night, hjälte. After times of great darkness, we must take time to mourn all we have lost and all who were lost, even as hope rises with the sun.”
― Emory R. Frie, Realm of the Snow Queen

“Nevertheless, I must ask. I have to. I must be prepared to ask and ask until I tire myself out. Because my daughter is my child. In the end, I want to know, and I must know. I don't want to be the kind of parent who runs away. I don't want to avoid and hesitate, and end up losing my daughter.”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter