Next to You (Next, #2)

by Hannah Bonam-Young

“My parents always taught us that life is what you do between what you have to do.”

“My mom’s a reader—I guess that’s where I got it from—and she had this line from The Count of Monte Cristo she’d quote often.” He clears his throat with one small cough. “ ‘Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain it.’ ”

“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day that God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope.’ ”