Desiree

“A book is a coffin because it holds a body, sometimes more than one, and we readers are there to witness, mourn, and celebrate. I like the idea of people (Yes, you. Hi, there!), no matter how small the number, lifting and carrying this casket for a time, honoring it with their attention, experience, memory, and melancholic wonder at what was, at what might be. When you put it down, when you stop carrying it, you'll move on, like you must. And who knows, perhaps years later a snippet of the book's memory will unexpectedly alight and linger; a memory of a time and place and of the person you once were, if you allow it.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Pallbearers Club

“To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognize the teeth it keeps half hidden.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

“I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea