Cindy

“How does he die here in the cold with so little ceremony? How does he die without me to look at him as he goes? How did we not deserve last words, last moments, last looks? It's unbearable.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“In Your mercy and love, blot out the sins Angel has committed through human weakness. In this world he has died: let him live with You forever.”
― Alena Dillon, Mercy House

“There is no such thing as morality in these distressing times. What we are witnessing is the death of courtesy in Western civilization. I don't speak of the mincing, effete courtesy of these desperate times, but the virile, robust courtesy born in the most violent of times, the Middle Ages. I lament the passing of that form of chivalry which was the way that civilized men had agreed to treat each other during times of peace. It was a code and a hallmark of civilization, and men would rather have died by their own hand than break the code.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists