Vicki Nix

“You are of me, Loreda, in a way that can never be broken. Not by words or anger or actions or time. I love you.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed. No matter how well prepared they are, all moms and dads experience a moment of total shock, when the tidal wave of feelings first washed through them, knocking them off their feet. It's incomprehensible because there's nothing to compare it to. It's like trying to describe sand between your toes or snowflakes on your tongue to someone who's lived their whole life in a dark room. It sends the soul flying.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“A great deal is expected of anyone who's been given a lot.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown