Hannah

“People who have recently lose someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have that look on their own faces. I have noticed it on my face and I notice it now on others. The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness. It is the look of someone who walks from the ophthalmologist's office into the bright daylight with dilated eyes, or of someone who wears glasses and is suddenly made to take the off. These people who have lost someone look naked because they think themselves invisible. I myself felt invisible for a period of time, incorporeal.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“I loved my father when I was a child," said Will. "I thought he was the best man I'd ever known. Then when I discovered he had squandered all our money at the gaming tables, I thought he was the worst man I'd ever known. Now that I am myself a father, I know that he was simply a man.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“So much of managing in society is keeping one's chin up," Tessa added carefully, [...] and disregarding the ignorant things people say".”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“She was as silent as light on the leaves of trees.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto