Franzi

“Partings are strange. It seems so simple: one minute ago, four, five, he was here, at her side; now, he is gone. She was with him; she is alone. She feels exposed, chill, peeled like an onion.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I'd go looking for the England of English literature, and he said:
'Then it's there.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

“time runs only one way.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet