Cindy

“You go on about reasons," Cora said, "call things by other names, as if it changes what they are. But that doesn't make them true."
...."It's true though, your complaint. We come up with all sorts of fancy talk to hide things.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“And time is a curious thing. Most of us only live for the time that lies right ahead of us. A few days, weeks, years. One of the most painful moments in a person’s life probably comes with the insight that an age has been reached when there is more to look back on than ahead. And when time no longer lies ahead of one, other things have to be lived for. Memories, perhaps. Afternoons in the sun with someone’s hand clutched in one’s own. The fragrance of flower beds in fresh bloom. Sundays in a café. Grandchildren, perhaps. One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else’s future. And it wasn’t as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living. Grief is a strange thing.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“That was how change came she supposed, in the quiet of things unspoken and truths unacknowledged. (The Great Alone)”
― Kristen Hannah

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou