Nefeli

“No deception lasts forever. Truth rises like good bread dough.”
― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Baker's Secret

“What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“He has, Anges sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child’s suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child’s stead so that the boy might live.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These