Laura

“but it was the Classics Gaunt wanted: Plutarch and Xenophon and Thucydides, men who proved that Gaunt's own trouble were ancient and survivable.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“I myself was now an island. Solitary. Brambles and five-petalled flowers were my garden. Rocks my furniture. Ocean waves my lessons. Sadness overwhelmed me and sank back. Then, like the tide, joy crept in on me again.”
― Allegra Goodman, Isola

“I’m sorry, people said, and then they had cleared their conscience, and Ellwood was left with the memories.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“She was struck by the discrepancy in meaning the belongings presented. That death meant not only the cessation of a life, but vast worlds of significance. A candle that might have once provided comfort in the winter darkness, a shawl gifted by an erstwhile suitor, a pheasant that recalled her poor lost grandfather. Old brass, old rag, old bird.”
― Daniel Mason, North Woods