Dottie Nelson

“I do promise that you will survive this. Faith, my own heart is so scattered round the country now, I marvel that it has the strength each day to keep me standing. But it does,' she said, and drawing in a steady breath she pulled back just enough to raise a hand to wipe Sophia's tears. 'It does. And so will yours.'
'How can you be so sure?'
'Because it is a heart, and knows no better.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

“The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on.”
― Stephen King, It

“So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

“The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me