"Almost everything we said was wrong."

~Per Petterson

"The life they had together was one that neither of them had really imagined."

~John Williams

"But no birds sang. Strange, this absence of birds."

~Knut Hamsun

"At least in darkness you were spared the pretending."

~Tom Franklin

"...each the other's world entire."

~Cormac McCarthy

"Evenings in that part of the country must have been a kind of sad relief."

~Albert Camus

"...in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw."

~William Maxwell