Carrie Vottero

“He had a pathological need to cheer her up. To make her laugh. It was not the opposite of fear but its demented companion. It was marriage.”
― Eric Puchner, Dream State

“As I walked away he called to me and when I turned back he said, "They're never far from us, you know."
"Who?" I asked.
"The dead. No more'n a breath. You let that last one go and you're with them again.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“Find me a mother whose heart is not carved into the likeness of her children.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck: A Novel

“She glanced up to see that her mother was doing the same and she wanted to say, Do you think of her, do you still catch yourself listening for her footsteps, for her voice, for the sound of her breathing at night, because I do, all the time. I still think that one day I might wake and she will be there, next to me, again; there will have been some wrinkle or pleat in time and we will be back to where we were, when she was living and breathing.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet