Pauline Edwards

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”
― Cheryl Strayed

“life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
― Lucinda Riley, The Sun Sister

“grief doesn’t disappear. Like a spill of glitter, you keep finding little bits everywhere, for ever, and in the oddest places.”
― Eve Chase, The Midnight Hour

“Wives create their husbands. They begin with that rough raw material, that blundering, well-meaning and handsome youthfulness they have fallen in love with, and then commence the forty years of unstinting labour it takes to make the man with whom they can live.”
― Niall Williams, Four Letters of Love: A Novel