Val

“All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“Where you're born is sometimes all that separates a sure thing from a long shot.”
― Tupelo Hassman

“You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.”
― Tod Goldberg, The Reformed