Linda Durst

“You... You're dying?"
"Aren't we all? [...] I much prefer to say I'm living, don't you?”
― Lori Nelson Spielman, The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany

“He puts his claw against the divider. “Fist my bump.”

“Fist-bump. It’s just ‘fist-bump.’”

“Understand.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Maybe ye don’t know it, Mr. Herriot, but this is the best time of your life.” “Do you think so?” “Aye, there’s no doubt about it. When your children are young and growin’ up around ye—that’s when it’s best. It’s the same for everybody, only a lot o’ folk don’t know it and a lot find out when it’s too late. It doesn’t last long, you know.”
― James Herriot, The Lord God Made Them All

“Hiraeth!” Poppy cries, and claps her hands. “Do you know this Welsh word? It’s a feeling not easily translated into words. A deep longing for home, a nostalgia—a yearning—for the place that calls to your soul.”
― Lori Nelson Spielman, The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany