Rosie

“What I realised is that I am all that is left. All of these stories, photographs and facts reside within me. There are tangible things that remain: her shoes, her packets of scent, his letters. These things tell the story of a life, of many lives intertwined, but I am the point at which they meet.”
― Stephanie Scott, What's Left of Me Is Yours

“It was as though her nature were so brimming over with something that against her will it expressed itself now in a radiant look, now in a smile. She deliberately shrouded the light in her eyes but in spite of herself it gleamed in the faintly perceptible smile.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it - only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Look at the people around you: those you love, those who love you, those who want what you have. They can enter your life as easily as he entered mine.”
― Stephanie Scott, What's Left of Me Is Yours