Sarah Smith

“Grief, oh god, the weight of it. Depression was hollow, sadness was vacant. Neither was anything like this.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“For though they were not sung, it was the mothers, the daughters and the wives who kept the world turning, the fires lit, the lights burning.”
― Claire North, The Last Song of Penelope

“Be alone, Jen. You know how to be alone without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is? Do you know how much I wish I could do that? It’s a wonderful thing you’ve got going on there.”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material

“So Agamemnon fears the dead? Well there are plenty of them to fear - young men with all their lives ahead of them do not go down into the darkness reconciled.”
― Pat Barker, The Women of Troy