Constance

“Nothing changed, in the aftermath of loss. Songs kept getting written. Books kept getting read. Wars didn't stop....Life renewed itself, over and over, without sympathy. Time surged on in its usual rhythms, those comings and goings, beginnings and ends, sensible progressions that fixed things in place, without a thought to the whistling in the woods on the outskirts of town....”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“I'm any face in a crowd; just the Lord's way of filling in the gaps.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Life renewed itself, over and over, without sympathy.”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“Tomorrow can be whatever I want it to be, which means for the first time in decades, I can look forward to it. Instead of being something to fear, it can be a promise I make myself. A chance to be braver or kinder, to make what was wrong right. To be better than I am today.
Every day after this one is a gift.”
― Stuart Turton