Amy

“I felt her loss in a powerfully physical way. I missed her smell and the sticky wet of her breath on my neck. I missed her fingers scratching through my hair. We sat next to each other, lay across each other, pushed, pulled, stroked, and struck each other a hundred times a day and I suffered the deprivation of this. It was an ache, a hunger on the surface of my skin.”
― Karen Joy Fowler

“Cats – by day the most docile of God’s creatures, every one of them in the night enlisting under the devil’s banner – took the place by storm after the human voice had ceased.”
― W.H. Davies, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything