Jane

“merely wish for the bereaved some time and space, however long, however short, for melancholy—what Victor Hugo described as the happiness of being sad.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days

“Life is strange. Always thinking that this one thing is going to make you happy. Because then you get it. And then you’re maybe not as happy as you imagined you would be. Because every day is just every day. Like the happiness becomes so big you have no choice but to live inside it. Until you can no longer see or feel it. And so you start to fixate on something else.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“The trouble is, if you convince yourself the past's more glorious or worthy of attention than the future, your imagination's sunk.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“And what if I never know anything certain again for the rest of my life?
Except love, someone said. You know that for sure.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck