Laurie

“His mop moves across the empty food court like a giant brush, painting a picture no one will ever see.”
― Katherine Applegate

“I had looked around. I'd seen all the things she'd spoken of and more besides. I'd seen a bear cub lift its face to the drenching spring rains. And the silver moon of winter, so high and blinding. I'd seen the crimson glory of a stand of sugar maples in autumn and the unspeakable stillness of a mountain lake at dawn. I'd seen them and loved them. But I'd also seen the dark of things. The starved carcasses of winter deer. The driving fury of a blizzard wind. And the gloom that broods under the pines always. Even on the brightest of days.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

“In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.”
― Suzanne Berne, The Ghost at the Table

“Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove