julia Skinner

“There was a time when we were not; this gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that there will come a time when we cease to be?’ William Hazlitt,”
― Brenda Bevan Remmes, The Quaker Café

“You’re supposed to gain things as you grow older in return for the things that you lose. But what had she gained? Dignity? She hadn’t got that. Peace? No. Wisdom? It seemed unlikely. And what had she lost? Beauty, youth, innocence, possibility. Your past grows longer and your future shrinks. And you lose your parents and your children – often at the same time so that you go from being daughter and mother to being neither. What are you then?”
― Nicci Gerrard, The Moment You Were Gone

“How was it that time only flowed in one direction, implacable and impersonal, dragging everyone with it, and couldn’t be stopped and turned back to that one moment?”
― Nicci Gerrard, Missing Persons

“We desire and love and hate and quarrel and deceive and weep – and in a short while we’re gone and our lives leave no trace, and all those tears and all that laughter might never have happened.”
― Nicci Gerrard, The Moment You Were Gone