"...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

"From this moment on, I thought, nothing will be as it was."

~Per Petterson

"...for the first time in his life he became aware of loneliness."

~John Williams

"A childhood that passed with an eye's blinking."

~William Gay

"Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him."

~Flannery O'Connor