Tia

“I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that."

"You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all."

"But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having ‘no edge’ being simple and worse, harmless.”
― Michael Cunningham

“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
― Raymond Carver