Long ago Quote by Marcel Proust

“But, at that point, all Jeanie had was the will to construct a new life, even if that meant forcing intangible aspects of it…

— Kathleen Shoop

“...experience was static in the valley; it was older than time itself, for time was a thing of but two generations, dated by moons…

— Peter Matthiessen

“Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had baked his…

— Émile Zola

“But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the…

— Hilary Boyd

“Living with him was like standing beside the sea. Each day a different colour, a different foam-capped height, but always the same restless intensity…

— Madeline Miller

“Things happened, as soon as they had they were in the past, once they were, there was nothing you could do. Days and nights…

— Alan Judd

“He recognized that he was feeling something he head never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever.”

— Paulo Coelho

“I was more concerned with refining my sense of the sheer mysteriousness of life so that it infused each moment of my waking existence,…

— Stephen Batchelor

“A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that…

— Anne Stuart

“Sitting alone with Jean, Avery felt for the first time that he was part of the world, engaged in the same simple happiness that…

— Anne Michaels

“Some presence had a hold of me in that moment that would change my life from then on. I didn't know what that change…

— Sam Childers

“Often I felt like two people. One went into the world and did the living for the other, who was stuck in an endless…

— Michael Wyndham Thomas