Bhavna

“No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice