Sheila

“We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Look for the good,” Louise Weir had taught her sons. “The bad happens anyway.”
― Marlys Millhiser, The Mirror

“All you can do with the past is carry it around, feeling its weight slowly increase, praying it never crushes you completely.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas