Anne

“My Dad was sad that he saw us working so hard on something that was destined to fail.”
― Kristin Kimball, The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

“Without me to struggle against, without the constant chaos of our first growing season, without the pressure of our impending wedding, he seemed to have found his own steady rhythm. I worked my way into it, looking for the harmony this time, instead of conflict. We found easy joy in working together, becoming real partners, instead of combatants, for the first time.”
― Kristin Kimball, The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

“A saying, since a saying arises always from the mouths of adults when a person was just a listening child, was supposed to carry you back there, like a magic trick or a scrap of a story, or something with something else still sticking to it.”
― Sebastian Barry

“To the extend that a man with the soul filleted out of him could be happy. Since the things he had wished for were no more, he wished for nothing. He breathed in and out. That was all.”
― Sebastian Barry