Elizabeth

“In the presence of someone else's sorrow, a tiny crack of light would somehow come through her own dark encasement”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“The point is that even in difficult times, see how the light is always working to come in. Don’t forget to notice.”
― Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

“But Carrie had told her friend once, during high school, not to model herself on Julia. "I like your mom a lot," Carrie had said, "but anyone that dresses and does their hair as carefully as your mom does every single day is unhappy on the inside. She's trying to hide all her messiness, and I want better than that for you.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Grief was love with nowhere to go

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife”
― Johnston, Anna