Old self Quote by Henna Sohail

“Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown upward toward…

— Kimberly Cutter

“Outside, as she passed the kitchen window, she watched her breath appear before her in the lamplight and then it died away in moist…

— Paulette Jiles

“She stood in the storm, & when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

“All her life, she had learned that passion, like fire, was a dangerous thing. It so easily went out of control. It scaled walls…

— Celeste Ng

“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead…

— Grace Willows

“What was she left with but ashes and darkness once the light of the flame went out? The smell of smoke lingered like a…

— Eric Overby

“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to…

— Marguerite Duras

“She felt the night air on her, pretending she was somewhere else, in some other time. She often did this before she did something…

— Adrienne Maree Brown

“She had passed through the fire and emerged stronger, because something that had burned to ash could never be burned again.”

— Lucy Gordon

“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened…

— Henry James

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. These…

— Hugh Howey