Vivian

“It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version

“What is plucked will grow again,
What is slain lives on,
What is stolen will remain--
What is gone is gone.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version

“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.”
― John Gardner, Grendel