Marlene

“You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.” p 463”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― M.L Stedman

“During an interview;
Then McLain returns to the impact on Markham and Blixen of the death of Finch Hatton.
"You know, there's a line at the end of my book that goes, 'This time with Denys would fade, and it would last forever.'
That's something I actually believe about love. Sometimes we don't get to keep the people we love the most and who change us the most. That's an unromantic, uncommercial view of love. But to me it feels absolutely true.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog