Past and Perspective
For when the past pulls at your soul through stories that breathe life into history. Books that weave time and tenderness—where memory meets the moment.
by Elizabeth Gilbert“You must learn in life to take things more lightly, my dear. The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it.”City of Girls
by Bonnie Garmus“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun.”
Lessons in Chemistry
by Lisa Grunwald“Did it matter how long it had taken for a flower to become a flower? Did it matter if it was a day or a million years? Either way, life was improbable, miraculous.”The Evolution of Annabel Craig
by Kristin Hannah“A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself.”The Four Winds
by Kristin Hannah“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah“Maybe happy now, happy for a moment, is all we really get. Happy forever seems a shitload to ask in a world on fire.”The Women
by Madeline Miller“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”Circe
by Madeline Miller“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”The Song of Achilles
by Susanna Kearsley“But wait. For when the sun has disappeared, its dying gift, on leaving us, is to make all that it has touched more beautiful than it had been before, that we may know the sun was here, and hold its memory till we meet with it again.”The King’s Messenger
by Beatriz Williams“It’s important to know where you came from,” she says. “It’s a part of you. But it doesn’t have to define you. They give you the paper and ink, but you write the story yourself.”Husbands & Lovers
by Amor Towles“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.”Rules of Civility
by Taylor Jenkins Reid“All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”Daisy Jones and the Six