Sarah

“Her heart was not of ice at all, but of a roiling lava contained by her own will...”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“A deep aching for life simmered inside him behind a shell of indifference.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“Suddenly she is sure that she can tackle whatever is ahead of her, of them, that things will turn out, because her sister has come...”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Land

“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These