Comfort & Joy

by Kristin Hannah

How can I possibly fold all that longing into something as small as words?

Regret, I know, is a powerful remainder; it can bring the strongest man to his knees.

reminds me how fragile we all are, how easily we can wound one another, especially when love is involved. Stacey.

We have always been the witnesses of each other’s lives. Isn’t that what family is? Even broken and betrayed and bleeding, we are connected.

You can run away from your life and your past, but there’s no way to distance yourself from your own heart.

Some things need to be simply planted in the soft dirt of possibility.

If nothing else, this pause has given me that: a lens through which to view my previous life. It’s not forgiveness. Not even near that yet, but it is … acceptance, and that’s better than nothing.

“You see things and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were And say, ‘Why not?’” —George Bernard Shaw