Lucy

“Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I don’t care, I love you anyhow. It is too late to turn you out of my heart. Part of you lives here.”
― Anne Sexton

“Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

“He is sitting by the pool and talking to Harold and Julia when abruptly, he feels that strange hollowing in his stomach he occasionally experiences even when he and Jude are in the same house: the sensation of missing him, and odd desire to see him. And although he would never say it to him, this is the way Jude reminds him of Hemming—that awareness that sometimes touches him, as lightly as wings, that the people he loves are more temporal, somehow, than others, that he has borrowed them, and that someday they will be reclaimed from him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life