Malena

“I've sometimes thought that being loved a little less than others can actually make a person, rather than ruin them.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“there are many points in life when we cannot see what awaits us around the corner, and it is precisely at such times, when our path forward is unclear, that we must bravely keep our nerve, resolutely putting one foot before the other as we march blindly into the dark.”
― Richard C. Morais, The Hundred-Foot Journey

“There are things we find only at our lowest depths. The idea of wings and then wings themselves. An ocean worth crossing one dark mile at a time. The whole of the sky. And whatever suffering has come is the necessary cost of such wonders, as Karen once said, the beautiful thrashing we do when we live.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“Miwanzo is the word in Swahili for “beginnings.” But sometimes everything has to end first and the bottom drop out and every light fizzle and die before a proper beginning can come along.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun