Quote by William Gay

“Her mind had been a blank story for so many years, and, suddenly, all the pages were filled with lost memories.”

— Rachel M. Greenebaum

“The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“My grandmother had no time for old, no matter how her face crinkled or her days folded like an apron around her middle.”

— April Michelle Bratten

“From where she is, the page- her paper-thin future-is infinitely heavy.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

“...And as if she had opened a hidden door, I felt the patterned surface break and give way, and the words let me in.…

— Julie Schumacher

“The years of her life tumbled out onto the floor like marbles that she would never be able to gather up again in one…

— Cathie Pelletier

“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 though to fortify me she took the letter out and placed it on the table between us. Its pages were folded, yellowed like…

— Tan Twan Eng

“It was like falling into a dream, and she felt herself getting lost inside the lines, the simplicity of the page a safety net…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“I could not tell what I should fill even this one day with; and there were years ahead. She”

— Mary Renault

“she surveyed the chaos of her apartment and told herself, as she had almost every morning for the past two years, that she would…

— Tracy Ewens