Rae

“There are no elegant potatoes.”
― Kathleen Tessaro, Elegance

“He thought there must be a place, like a dead-letter office, where everyone's longing went, yearning that was sent out, day after day. He thought it must collect somewhere, in a dank basement room, the mass of it rising and rising like water, and with no end in sight.”
― Jane Hamilton, The Short History of a Prince

“I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I do not really want to be alive.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped.”
― Jane Hamilton, The Short History of a Prince