Gemma

“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“He’d give you the shirt off his back if you needed it. That’s more than can be said for most Mackems!’ ‘What’s a Mackem?’ Tom said. ‘Someone from Sunderland,’ Lauren clarified,”
― Chris Frost, The Killer’s Christmas List

“There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life.

And then, of course, the end of the world happened.”
― Justin Cronin, The Twelve

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You