Dorothy

“Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.”
― Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam

“I was already becoming a woman who sized up another one fast—I was becoming typical.”
― Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs: A Novel

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“Once you have a sister, you never stop having her, even if you can no longer see or touch her.”
― Mitch Albom, First Phone Call from Heaven