Amy

“It said that a dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book. I loved that. And I just had to have it.”
― Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library

“I need you to find a forgiveness,” Elsie said. I just didn’t realize she meant I had to find it for myself. Perhaps that’s the most important moment. Not the moment of the mistake itself but the moment in which you finally forgive yourself for making it.”
― Joanna Cannon, Three Things About Elsie

“Perhaps the most important moments of all turn out to be the ones we walk through without thinking, the ones we mark down as just another day. Just another day we have to get through before something more interesting comes along. We benchmark our lives with birthdays and Christmases and holidays, but perhaps we should think more about the ordinary days. The days which pass by and we don’t even notice. Elsie once said that you can’t tell how big a moment is until you turn back and look at it, and I think, perhaps, that she was right.”
― Joanna Cannon, Three Things About Elsie

“There is nothing natural about being ninety-five years old, being dressed by a young woman in pink pajamas, being unable to forget the things you never wanted to remember, and unable to remember the only things you ever wanted to keep. No, there is nothing natural about death or its causes—this too, I remember.”
― Eric M. Schumacher, My Last Name