Enduring Quote by Elizabeth Goudge

“He just wanted to live inside a moment of that life with her forever, to pluck it like a flower and press it in…

— Matt Haig

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Her life could go inten thousand different directions, and all of them were right. So tomorrow, and in two weeks, and in a couple…

— Rebecca Barrow

“She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their…

— Simon Van Booy

“All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed,…

— Michelle de Kretser

“As her husband held her close, she could feel the pulse of other choices, other lives, opening up beneath her. Her past crackled behind…

— Dan Chaon

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be…

— Kate Chopin

“For a powerful truth had come to her: Before she could spring into her future, she needed to smooth over the bumps of her…

— Kristina McMorris

“It was as if she would never be whole until the secrets of the past were exposed.”

— Rachel Abbott

“Back before her life had begun to unravel. Or before she knew it was unraveling.”

— Chris Pavone