Amy

“This was precisely what made him so nice. He was even considerate to ghosts.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories

“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of our migratory patterns. We pretended that what we has lost was the house, not our mother, not our father. We pretended that what we had lost has been taken from us by the person who still lived inside…”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends