Jill

“But I’d better not go to fast in my story, for all things want their order, and no matter how early one gets up, dawn doesn’t come any sooner.”
― Camilo José Cela Conde, The Family of Pascual Duarte

“And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary