5 Quotes by Fiona Valpy

Even though it's so painful, grief is something we have to go through sooner or later. There's no way round it, no way to avoid it. That something we all learned in the war. You go through it. But if you have a friend or two to walk along that path beside you, it helps you to bear it.

Then one by one they raised their faces to the sky. 'Like a field of sunflowers'.

You smell of honey and sunshine. Even after all that. The darkness of this world can't dim the light that shines from you, Eliane.

her fingertips brushed his hand for a fleeting moment, a touch as gentle as the brush of a butterfly's wing

And I feel my heart beginning to unfurl and to reach outwards into the world again, like the delicate tendrils of a plant at the end of a long, long, spell of drought.