Jen

“When pleased, I beat like a drum. When sad, I break like glass. Once stolen, I can never be taken back. What am I?”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“He had never heard anything quite as amazing as that voice. She talked as if she was continuously on the verge of breaking into giggles. And when she giggled she sounded the way Ove imagined champagne bubbles would have sounded if they were capable of laughter.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“no matter how hard a person ran, no matter how fresh the start they gave themselves, the past had a way of reaching across the years to catch them.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“...and that dizzying gap between what she should feel and what she did feel was tearing her apart.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead