Carol

“The flies of some other summer darkening its windowsills.”
― William Trevor

“I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.”
― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

“He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.”
― Kent Haruf, Eventide

“The closer it came the more speed it gathered about it, until suddenly it was tearing a great hole right through the day.”
― Mick Jackson, Five Boys