Anna

“I want to change. But my bones are old, my heart is selfish, my spirit is weary. I look at me and I look at you, and I see two different dream. I am death. And you, Sidra…” He reached out to touch her face, softly, as if she might vanish beneath his fingers. “You are life.”
She closed her eyes beneath his caress. When his hand eased away, she looked at him and whispered, “Does that mean we cannot exist as one?”
He had been waiting for her to ask this. He had yearned to answer her in the orchard, when she had made it evident that they were vastly contrasting souls.
“No,” Torin said. “It means that without you, I am nothing.”
― Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted

“I once thought home was simply a place. Four walls to hold you at night while you slept. But I was wrong. It’s people. It’s being with the ones that you love, and maybe even the ones that you hate.”
― Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted

“But he would come if she needed him. All she had to do was stand in her garden and speak his name into the wind, and he would come when the whisper on the breeze found him. When he recognized her voice within it, whether the wind blew from the north, the south, the east, or the west. Sometimes it took hours for him to arrive, but he always faithfully answered.”
― Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted

“I've been slowly wearing away at my ignorance and, as I said, I've always kept on learning. But that ignorance is still so vast that even today, at seventy, learning this quiet life, I still cherish the hope of being able to embrace everything and experience everything, the unknown and the known, yes, even those things I've known before. There's an intense longing for the known as there is for the unknown because one just can't accept that certain things won't repeat themselves.”
― Javier Marías, All Souls