“My world got very small, the way it always does when someone in your family is sick.”
― The Boston Girl
― The Boston Girl
“She felt almost guilty that she had handed some of her grief to him, and then she felt close to him for his willingness to take it and hold it, in all its rawness, all its dark confusion.”
― Brooklyn
― Brooklyn
“I’m still embarrassed and mad at myself. But after seventy years, I also feel sorry for the girl I used to be. She was awfully hard on herself.”
― The Boston Girl
― The Boston Girl
“She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“How fragile life was, how fragile they were.
Love.
It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between. It didn’t matter that she was broken and ugly and sick. He loved her and she loved him, All her life she had waited -longed for - people to love her, but now she saw what she really mattered. She had known love, been blessed by it.”
― The Nightingale
Love.
It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between. It didn’t matter that she was broken and ugly and sick. He loved her and she loved him, All her life she had waited -longed for - people to love her, but now she saw what she really mattered. She had known love, been blessed by it.”
― The Nightingale
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