Susan Werner

“Those who hasten to live are in a hurry to miss,” she sometimes used to whisper to Noah, though he didn’t know what she meant before she was buried.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Yeah. The way home’s getting longer and longer every morning now.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“The longing of the mystic is to be at home with yourself and then put the welcome mat out so that others find a home in you. In this, we want to be “all there.” The”
― Gregory Boyle, The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness

“Noahnoah, promise me something, one very last thing: once your good-bye is perfect, you have to leave me and not look back. Live your life. It’s an awful thing to miss someone who’s still here.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer