Philippa

“He was a detective by then, and he was her father, so she figured he'd know how to find the bracelet.”
― Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

“In my defence I'm very tired and I don't have any good ideas.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
― Oscar Wilde

“On the night before she had left Moscow, when Sofia had expressed her distress at what her father wanted her to do, he had attempted to console her with a notion. He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of supreme lucidity–a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of a bold new life that we had been meant to lead all along.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow