Koel Ray

“It must be great. Not to miss things. Not to long to get back to something. Not to be looking back all the time.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“Sometimes,’ she said, ‘at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed, sitting here, alive and in my own home, any more than poor Tom Jenkyn could, swinging in his chains.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

“Some songs weren’t mere songs. They were memories curled tight and set alight.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water