The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne Quotes

“I do believe that it’s the falls we take when we are far from the place where we grew up which make us robust, Eadie, which equip us for the world. I do believe it’s when we can get back on our feet and haul ourselves upright, miles away from where we perceive the safety of our childhood to be, that we become adults, that we are prepared for life.”
― Freya North, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

“The weight of this sad time we must obey Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
― Freya North, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

“my heart creaked too because perhaps we knew he was saying all of this to release us”
― Freya North, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

“You’re just like a dream.’ All of it is – it’s so long ago that I can’t quite believe that once it was real.”
― Freya North, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

“Have you ever thought how the pace at which we go through life changes so drastically – you can age yourself by it?’ I say. ‘When you stop scampering, when you start to loll and loaf about instead?”
― Freya North, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

“family messy with love.”
― Freya North, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

“we were so thrilled about tomorrow that none of us noticed the sadness wash over Sandrine as if she was a colour photo fading to black-and-white.”
― Freya North, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

“Forgiveness is what makes us human. It is our greatest gift. To others. To ourselves.”
― Freya North, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

“what was identical was the pull to remember, to honour, to mark with love.”
― Freya North, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

“It is not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It is because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”
― Freya North, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne