Blessing Quote by Robin Hobb

I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.

— Keith Hollihan

It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me…

— Marisha Pessl

Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable…

— Willa Cather

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were…

— Henry David Thoreau

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring…

— Anonymous

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted…

— Bell Hooks

I'm holding on to the things we did, and all that we were together, but slowly day by day you slip away, till there's…

— Anonymous

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this…

— Georg Brandes

We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that…

— Cynthia Weil

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile…

— Henri Nouwen

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity…

— Alain de Botton