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

“The only way to live is to forget that you are going to die. The fear of it should never influence a single action of the wise man.”
― William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Before I do anything I feel that I have choice, and that influences what I do; but afterwards, when the thing is done, I believe that it was inevitable from all eternity. It’s no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.”
― William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage