Tamara

“Because they travelled together, they developed intimacy. This was something other orphans didn’t have. Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have special qualities that nobody else has.”
― Heather O'Neill, The Lonely Hearts Hotel

“And so he left things as they were. Without realizing it, he was beginning to defer his problems in the hope that death would resolve them,”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Today is the thirty-seventh anniversary of my mother's death. I have thought of her, longed for her, every day of those thirty-seven years, and my father has, I think, thought of her almost without stopping. If fervent memory could raise the dead, she would be our Eurydice, she would rise like Lady Lazarus from her stubborn death to solace us. But all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath. The only thing my need could do was bring me to her. What will Clare have when I am gone? How can I leave her?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“His smile was warm and generous - the big, open-hearted smile that the long years since then have taught me to associate with Canada and Canadians.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram