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

“Love doesn’t leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won’t be.”
― Laura Dave, The Divorce Party

“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

“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