Katherine

“I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.”
― Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Beasts

“Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy