Rhea

“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“Why won’t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to work at my desk.

Long minutes passed. I didn’t think he would answer. I even had time to hope he might have gone, until I felt his hand on my shoulder.

“Then I’d be alone, too," he said, and he stayed the whole night through, till the lamps burned down to nothing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia