Sarah Doherty

“There’s something quite special about a granny’s house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“I'm not so worried anymore, because now I know nobody knows what they are doing in life, and nobody knows what to do when bad things happen, to themselves or to other people. We make it up as we go, and sometimes we are big and generous and sometimes we are small and petty. We say the wrong things, we obsess over all the ways we got it wrong and all the ways that other people did, too. The only thing I know for sure it that it is okay not to know everything, to try and fail and to sometimes suck at life, as long as you try to get better.”
― Nora McInerny Purmort, It's Okay to Laugh

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I have never been one of those people - I know you aren't either - who feels that the love one has for a child is somehow a superior love, one more meaningful, more significant, and grander than any other . . . But it is a singular love, because it is a love whose foundation is not physical attraction, or pleasure, or intellect, but fear. You have never known fear until you have a child, and maybe that is what tricks us into thinking that it is more magnificent, because the fear itself is more magnificent. Every day, your first throughout is not "I love him" but "How is he?”
― Hanya Yanagihara