grace

“It was all bad, very bad. And the worst of it was not that they had ceased waiting, but that they had ceased to have faith.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“The death of a beloved is an amputation.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. Try to hold me in your mind, at some quiet times, as ardent and sincere in this one thing. The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you--ties that will bind you yet more tenderly and strongly to the home you so adorn--the dearest ties that will ever grace and gladden you. O Miss Manette, when the little picture of a happy father's face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you!”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“He ran on, and the stars ran with him. When he stopped, the stars stopped, too, patiently waiting for him. He knew this trick of theirs already, but it always thrilled him.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan