Diana

“You're no longer where you were, but you are everywhere that I am.”
― Valérie Perrin, Cambiare l'acqua ai fiori

“to be a good advisor, you have to set aside your own personal opinions and feelings in a kind of detachment or camouflage – since self-interest is incompatible with objectivity – and avoid the limelight. Maintained over years, this steady, watchful, guarded attitude had become a way of life for me – one in which I constantly looked out for pitfalls, anticipated threats coming over the horizon, and readied myself to move and adapt at a moment’s notice and melt from the picture. Was it possible that that I had blended too much into the background of my own life… blurring my own identity”
― Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare: A Memoir

“Nobody lives a small life. No one is forgotten by the universe.”
― Laura Lynne Jackson, The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven, Lessons for the Living

“I worked it out sitting here. Maybe that’s the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don’t get to keep them.”
There was a silence before he spoke again.
“Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars