Ashley

“But, I suspect, in all lives there are certain emotional scenes, those in which our passions have been most wildly and terribly roused, that are of all others the most vaguely and dimly remembered.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“Memory is often our only connection to who we used to be. Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead versions of ourselves.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations. And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Even small actions have consequences. And while we can often choose our actions, we rarely get to choose our consequences.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea