Michelle

“I'm forty-two," he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.”
― Monica Wood

“We are allowed to do that, are we not Mabel? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?”
― Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

“You know, one meets so many people, the years pass and pass, but there are certain times, certain people— . . . They take up room. So much room. I was married to Howard for twenty-eight years and yet he made only a piddling dent in my memory. A little nick. But certain others, they move in and make themselves at home and start flapping their arms in the story you make of your life. They have a wingspan. . . .”
― Monica Wood, The One-in-a-Million Boy

“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin