Lela Rybinski

“Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.”
― Sharon Creech

“Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.”
― E.B. White, Letters of E.B. White