Hillary

“There’s some comfort in seeing things go on; birds keep singing, buses keep running. But if you want those things to continue, perhaps you have to accept that the other kinds of things, unhappier, even horrific ones, will continue too. And that’s harder.”
― Ashley Hay, The Railwayman's Wife

“I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.”
― Paul Harding, Tinkers

“That is marriage, he thought, remaking yourself in someone else’s image. And who knew where the truth of it began or would end?”
― Ashley Hay, The Railwayman's Wife

“Such fascinating things, libraries. She closes her eyes. She could
walk inside and step into a murder, a love story, a complete account
of somebody else’s life, or mutiny on the high seas. Such potential;
such adventure—there’s a shimmer of malfeasance in trying other
ways of being.”
― Ashley Hay, The Railwayman's Wife