"At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?"
- Fredrik Backman
"There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology."
- Amy Hatvany
"The girl I’d been just an hour ago was gone; she’d been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now."
"I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead"
"Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift..."
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
"And now she must continue the day as if the strange dream hadn’t picked up her life and shaken it upside down like a snow globe, dislodging everything that wasn’t glued down."The Dream Jumper's Promis..."
- Kim Hornsby
"Bela had thought she knew what love felt like, but when she saw Sanjay at the airport after six long months, her heart gave a great, hurtful lurch, as though it were trying to leap out of her body to ..."