Irecis

“She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

“I couldn't even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he'd always been. He'd never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever. Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

“Instead I let the moment pass and I just sighed and leaned back onto my chair. The sky was pinky gold. I had the feeling that there was nothing
more beautiful than this, that this particular sunset matched the beauty of anything
in this world, ten times over. I could feel all the tension of the day drifting away from me and out to sea. I wanted to memorize it all in case I didn’t get to come back again. You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You