The Book of Lost and Found

by Lucy Foley

if the nature of the work is right, there is great reward to be found. The feeling that one has a place in the world, that one is useful in some small way, is not to be underrated.

Frenchmen, didn’t believe it would happen. Until the Maginot Line turned out to be as unbreachable as the Titanic was unsinkable.

I think we carry all of our past selves with us, in tight layers. Somewhere within you is that girl, however many other, new selves you may have grown in the years since. She’s what holds you together, at the very center.”