Avery

“Did mothers always try to press unto their daughters the itineraries of which they themselves had dreamed. Did I?”
― Joan Didion

“Because the different chance events which bring us into contact with certain people do not coincide with the time during which we are in love with them, but, extending beyond it, may occur before it begins and repeat themselves after it has ended, the earliest appearances in our lives of a person destined later to captivate us assume retrospectively in our eyes the significance of a warning, a presage. This”
― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Still in the process of becoming, the soul makes room.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country