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

“For it is not always the one that strikes the blow, that is the actual murderer; and Mary was done to death by that unknown gentleman, as surely as if he’d taken the knife and plunged it into her body himself.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“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