Emma Walker

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room