Evelyn

“One thing I learned in this world? Things don't last. People say they do. They don't. Your friends, they die. The wars go on and on and on, then they end. People say they will love each other for the rest of their lives, and they don't.”
― Pete Hamill, North River

“People change, you know. When you leave your country, you are like a plant taken out of soil. Some people turn hard, they can't flower again.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“But then it passed, as all things do.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“After just a week in the hospital, I felt I’d left America for another country. My world was a land of fluorescent lights where day and night were the same, and where more than half the citizens spoke Spanish. When they spoke English it wasn’t what I expected in the land of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The bloodlines from the Mayflower hadn’t trickled down to this zip code. Three”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone