Good thing Quote by Lauren Willig

“Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. The husbands lived two hours away...”

— Charles Frazier

“I remembered looking up in the sky to see the contrail of a jet overhead. I thought how the harrowing journey that took Marie's…

— Mike Ericksen

“We were carried for many days in houses that went on wheels and flew along like birds. And now it seemed as if the…

— Claire Prentice

“She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a…

— Stewart O'Nan

“Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape.”

— Ally Condie

“The women advised long walks. They told the wife to watch the sun rise and set, to look for solace in the natural world,…

— Amy Hempel

“They decided to get married in the house, because it was quick and there was a bed nearby.”

— Sylvia Day

“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning;…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Until now travel had always been a fraught affair. Each year until she was sixteen, it had been two weeks fighting with her sister…

— David Nicholls

“The heavens were inexhaustible, it had rained every day since the beginning of September and except for a couple of hours I hadn’t seen…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“He didn't look back but he knew his wife and his brother's wife, all the women of the house, would be flying, as if…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Like thousands of others, we survived the storm and the many dark days that followed because of the kindness of strangers who brought food,…

— Vivek Murthy