Stacie

“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle, or, a better metaphor, if dated, the links of a long chain, and even if those links are never put back together, which they will certainly never be, even if they remain for the rest of time dispersed across the earth like the fragile blown seeds of a dying dandelion, isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“Grief shared, I think, can produce two outcomes. Either you bind yourselves together and hold on for dear life, or you let go and up goes a wall too high to be crossed.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“I wonder if this is why I love books. I can dip my toe into other lives without entirely changing my own. I can stay, because in books, I can adventure and wander, meander and dream.”
― Annie B. Jones, Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put

“Remember: words, especially those written, are immortal.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent