Sandra

“This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.”
― Colum McCann

“He thought of Mrs Wilson, of her daily kindnesses, of how she had corrected and encouraged him, of the small things she had said and done and had refused to do and say and what she must have known, the things which, when added up, amounted to a life. Had it not been for her, his mother might very well have wound up in that place. In an earlier time, it could have been his own mother he was saving – if saving was what this could be called. And only God knew what would have happened to him, where he might have ended up.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Always it was the same, Furlong thought; always they carried mechanically on without pause, to the next job at hand. What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might their lives be different or much the same – or would they just lose the run of themselves?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Watching the show made her miss her younger days, a time when she must have been alive but lacked the vigour of youth. She thought of youth as a fleeting moment...Youth wasn't something you could hold on to. It amused her to think that she was longing for a time she'd never quite experienced.”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop