“That's how birthdays were in our house. All hateful charades of pretty clothes, expensive presents, and ugly words . . .”
― Debbie Howells, quote from The Bones of You
“I discover, too, that grief is different to different people. Comes in many guises. In shocked silences and closed doors around our village, as people try to shut it out. That a blank face or fleeting smile can hide the worst, most private kind of agony.”
― Debbie Howells, quote from The Bones of You
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“È vero, non ti importa delle cicatrici.”
“Mi importa, perché sono importanti per te, perché immagino abbiano influito nel fare di te l’uomo che sei oggi. Ma di sicuro non ti sminuiscono ai miei occhi. Né mi fanno desiderarti di meno.” Era, forse, la più profonda dichiarazione dei propri sentimenti che avesse mai fatto. Non aveva mai provato nulla del genere in vita sua.”
― Kim Fielding, quote from Rattlesnake
“You have to close some doors, honey, no matter how nice a yard they open out onto.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well.”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Walden and other writings
“Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, quote from The Long Goodbye
“Let no rough waters rend apart
Two who have become one heart.
For love's no love that can't withstand
A rogue wave breaking on the sand.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, quote from Rogue Wave
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