“ ...we spoke about dying. [Prim] told me how she'd nearly died of malaria. She said that she didn't mind the thought of death. That realizing you're going to die actually makes life better as it's only… Jennifer Ryan
“ Then I looked out onto the horizon myself and realized that loss is the same wherever you go: overwhelming, inexorable, deafening. How resilient human beings are that we can learn slowly to carry on w… Jennifer Ryan
“ Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice. Jennifer Ryan
“ Sometimes the magic of life is beyond thought. It's the sparkle of intuition, of bringing your own personal energy into your music. Jennifer Ryan
“ She didn't say anything, just a long, quiet "shhhh," as if she had learned that the troubles of the world could be absorbed and deafened by slow, steady wistfulness, and I suddenly understood that she… Jennifer Ryan
“ A sense of responsibility— or was it guilt?— hung over me, that I was in some way at fault because of cowering to all these pompous men all these years, when I should have had the bravery to reclaim m… Jennifer Ryan
“ And I realized that this is what it's like to be an adult, learning to pick from a lot of bad choices and do the best you can with that dreadful compromise. Learning to smile, to put your best foot fo… Jennifer Ryan
“ Perhaps there is something good that had come from this war: everything has been turned around, all the unfairness made grimly plain. It has given us everyday women a voice - dared us to stand up for… Jennifer Ryan
“ And isn't love between two people better than hatred, in this world of violence and mourning? There seemed to me a fragile kindness in their love that survived through this poisonous war. Even though… Jennifer Ryan
“ I took a deep breath of the syrupy sweetness of summer, suffused with bees and birds, and I thought to myself how beautiful this world can be. How lucky we are to be here, to be part of it, for howeve… Jennifer Ryan
“ If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live? Jennifer Ryan
