Meg Tompkins

“We were too distracted by our own story to pay much attention to all the wonders that were laid before us.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“There seems to be something miraculous about seeing the relentless optimism of new growth after the bleakness of winter, a kind of joy in the difference every year, the way nature chooses to show off different parts of the garden to its full advantage.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“All of it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“Because there would be lonely days. And bad days. And days when I wondered what the hell I had just agreed to be part of. Because that was all part of the adventure too.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You