Suzie

“I think the hardest part of losing anyone is that you still have to live with the same scenery. It's just the person you are used to isn't a part of it any more, and all you notice are the gaps where they used to be. It feels as though, if you concentrated hard enough, you could find them again in those empty spaces. Waiting for you.”
― Joanna Cannon , Three Things About Elsie

“You've got to find forgiveness, Elsie said; I just didn't realise she meant I had to find it for myself. Perhaps that's the most important moment. Not the moment of the mistake itself, but the moment in which you finally forgive yourself for making it.”
― Joanna Cannon, Three Things About Elsie

“If you ever open a drawer, Florence. If you ever open a drawer and find something there you weren't expecting, just remember there is so very much more to us than the worst thing we have ever done. Remember that, Florence. Please remember, even when I'm not here to remind you.”
― Joanna Cannon, Three Things About Elsie

“Sometimes, you go through an experience in life that slices into the very bones of who you are, and two different versions of yourself will always sit either side of it, like bookends.”
― Joanna Cannon, Three Things About Elsie