Lesley

“And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Sincere Graves was unnerving. Theatrical Graves was familiar. Lindsey relaxed. “Thank you.”
― Sebastian Nothwell, Mr Warren's Profession

“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity