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

“and I’ll tell you, pretty much every bad thing in life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing.” “That”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“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

“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