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“Maybe all people have that feeling deep down, that your hometown is something you can never really escape, but can never really go home to, either. Because it’s not home anymore. We’re not trying to make peace with it. Not with the streets and bricks of it. Just with the person we were back then. And maybe forgive ourselves for everything we thought we would become and didn’t.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“Some things are hard, even if they are right. Even if you know they are the proper, decent way. I was glad to have left herbs for those men whose lungs and minds had not known Highland winters before. It was kindness. And kindness is worth showing.”
― Susan Fletcher, The Highland Witch

“When you live your whole life in one town, you know all the places where tragedy has occurred, because bad memories are as permanent as gravestones.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Spy Coast

“You must learn to be generous with your absence to those
who haven’t understood the importance of your presence.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers