Kaye

“I discover that it is possible to be angry with someone who has died. It is possible to hate yourself for being angry with someone who has died. It is possible to believe that you will die from grief, that somehow your breathing will catch itself up and simply stop. It is possible to believe that you could have stopped the terrible thing that happened at any time, if only you had known.”
― Anita Shreve, Testimony

“I can't tell you exactly, any more than I could tell you exactly what is
the experience of sex if you have never had it.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“He had learned how reading a book can take you away from anywhere, and make you feel like you're somewhere else, and someone else.. Even if only for a little while.”
― Ava Dianne Day, Cut to the Heart

“As if immortality were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.”
― Anne Rice