Gail

“Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.”
― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

“Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.”
― Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

“How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.”
― Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire

“A friend had said to me once, “Whenever I don’t know what to do, I watch what I am doing.” And what I was doing that year was leaving, even though I had not yet left.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!