Máire Goggin

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Sometime—she didn’t know when—she closed her eyes and reached out, placing a hand in the hollow of his stomach, feeling it rise and fall with his breathing. It was like resting her hand on the ocean in summer, when the tide was coming in.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Theo, one of the hardest things to admit is that we weren’t loved when we needed it most. It’s a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.’ She was right, of course. I had”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient