addie

“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

“I didn’t know how to spell your name,” he says.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“You’re falling for me,”
― Jex Lane, Captive

“I’m not there,” she says. “I’m not there to scramble his egg or kiss his forehead. My baby. I’m not going to be there. The whole rest of his life he’s going to be sick without me. How can that be?”
― Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things