Amber

“Until at last, at some unclaimed moment, the heart-pain seeped away like water into sand. Still there, but deep.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“You know what’s really wonderful about those fireflies?” he said, finally, as if they had been having a whole other conversation. “Sure, they live for just a few weeks. Not much at all in the grand scheme of things. But while they’re there, the beauty of them, well, it takes your breath away.” He ran a thumb over the ridge of her knuckles. “You get to see the world in a whole new way. And then you have that beautiful picture burned onto the inside of your head. To carry it wherever you go. And never forget it.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“There was a sound like a rush of wings in the blackish clouds, and I knew his spirit had left him. I imagined it like a great flock of birds, soaring, scattering, coming to rest everywhere.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“Do you think there is anything not attached by its unbreakable cord to everything else?”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays