Nancy

“It's important to always have people who remember you at various stages of your life. It's especially important as you get older, because there are less of those people around. And they remind you who you are.”
― Brandon Stanton subject

“She could feel herself pressing the details into memory, saving them like dried flowers kept in a spinster's chest, relics of a past that might have been, of a future that never was.”
― Lauren Willig, The English Wife

“People froze you in place. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest.”
― Anna Quindlen

“Most people want to be led. But suppose they choose the wrong leader? They end up with the Donner party.”
― Louise Penny, The Long Way Home