Louisa Eggleton

“I still meet grief in sudden places, when I least expect it. A familiar song. A smell from the kitchen. Then there it is. An enemy that can’t be bested.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“I am of the opinion, Professor, that everything of value in this life must be earned. That it should be earned. Because those who are given something of value without having to earn it are bound to squander it. I believe that one should earn respect. One should earn trust. One should earn the love of a woman, and the right to call oneself a man. And one should also earn the right to hope. At one time I had a wellspring of hope—a wellspring that I had not earned. And not knowing what it was worth, on the day I left my wife and child, I squandered it. So”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“I was struggling with how I would make up for lost time, but now I know the time was not lost at all. It is just passed.”
― Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand

“Pure emotions are the luxury of children and animals,”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun