Kami

“I read of the losses of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, 3000 men.”
― Sarah Miller, Marmee

“If you come and see me again in years to come—as I hope you all will—I shall try to remember those older faces of yours, but it’s just possible I shan’t be able to—and then some day you’ll see me somewhere and I shan’t recognize you and you’ll say to yourself, ‘The old boy doesn’t remember me.’ [Laughter] But I do remember you—as you are now. That’s the point. In my mind you never grow up at all.”
― James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

“Winter is a time for libraries, the muffled quiet of bookstacks and the scent of old pages and dust. In winter, I can spend hours in silent pursuit of a half-understood concept or a detail of history. There is nowhere else to be, after all.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“She stared at him, accepting for the first time the fact that personal tragedy is just that. Personal. Your own existence could fall to pieces but that did not mean that the rest of the world necessarily knew about it, or even bothered.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Empty House”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Empty House