I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
Joanne HarrisSomehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.
Joanne HarrisIt's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.
Joanne HarrisThe past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.
Joanne HarrisPlaces do not lose their identity, however far one travels. It is the heart that begins to erode over time. The face in the hotel mirror seems blurred some mornings, as if by too many casual looks. By ten the sheets will be laundered, the carpet swept. The names on the hotel registers change as we pass. We leave no trace as we pass on. Ghostlike, we cast no shadow.
Joanne Harris