“The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― The Golden Notebook
― The Golden Notebook
“When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, “Ain’t nobody can write down in a book what you worth.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”
― The Midwife's Confession
― The Midwife's Confession
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