Laura

“Never, never, never could one conceive what love is beforehand, never. —D. H. Lawrence, after meeting his future wife”
― Laura Dave, The Divorce Party

“You know your parents are going to die, but they are going to die later. They are going to die sometime. But that time will not come until you no longer need them. While you still need them, or might need them, they will have the good taste and”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Art of Mending

“knock on her door. Patch wondered if hope was its own kind of punishment, sometimes worse than certainty, than the long and closed-off road toward healing.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Each was a talisman with magical properties. They were imbued with memory, story, and event, and in the course of time had gone from mere phenomena to sacred vessels of personal history. They were simultaneously a nuisance and completely necessary. My mother had grown old without losing the better part of innocence when it came to keepsakes. “Look,”
― David Guterson, The Final Case