Laura

“And then I understand that I have not been alone. I am reveling in this time because I am with Tony. In this solitude, finally, I can think about him undistracted. I can read his journals and commune with his thoughts. I can even do what I believed his death had denied me: learn new things about him.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days

“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless,”
― Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days

“Life is surprises, not deadlines or fooling yourself into thinking you need to stop wanting something to get the thing you want.”
― Jeff Hiller, Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

“She's 68 now, and although she knows the idea of being put out to pasture is a phrase others associate with obsolescence and redundancy, for her it conjures lushes green fields filled with buttercups where she's free to roam.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names