Amy

“Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

“We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“But a funeral reminds you to be alive, doesn’t it? It slaps you across the face and points out that there’s still warm blood doing a jig in your veins.”
― Lydia Kang, A Beautiful Poison

“But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. —”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry