Donna

“The truth was that you felt a certain way inside, and while the people who had known you your whole life would probably see you that way, the number of new people who could appreciate you as that person, that inside person, rather than just a collection of the frailties of age, was limited.”
― Paula Hawkins, A Slow Fire Burning

“She wished more than anything to be that child again. Someone for whom all decisions were made, and love was background noise; uneventful, absolute.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Friends and Strangers

“but her mother’s death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.”
― Kate Atkinson, Transcription