Allyson Roche

“But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.”
― Ali Smith, Autumn

“No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves