Dalton Overhulser

“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

“I found that I was reaching, automatically, for another cigarette; my eyes and throat felt hot and aching, and my brain stupid. I let it slip back into the packet. I had smoked too much that evening already.”
― Mary Stewart, The Ivy Tree

“Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than the rest.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death