Dianne

“Short Perfect Novels Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabal Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson Sula, by Toni Morrison The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad The All of It, by Jeannette Haien Winter in the Blood, by James Welch Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence: A Novel

“The Duchess in Hull. The Duchess on the Estate,”
― Andrew Lownie, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

“All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“mastering the art of contentment.”
― J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie: Public, Private, Secret