Gemma

“He’d give you the shirt off his back if you needed it. That’s more than can be said for most Mackems!’ ‘What’s a Mackem?’ Tom said. ‘Someone from Sunderland,’ Lauren clarified,”
― Chris Frost, The Killer’s Christmas List

“It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've lost everything-" Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself carry on. "When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End