"He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks. He wonders if she has buried any traces of herself under her floorboards. He wonders what those traces would be if she had. And he wonders again why he thinks about her so much when he knows so little to think about."

Source : Jon McGregor (2012). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing

Jon McGregor

#Memories Quotes #Wall Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.”

Source : Kin Hubbard (1916). “New Sayings by Abe Martin and Velma's Vow: A Gripping Love Tale by Miss Fawn Lippincut ...”
“My work is has always been very, very personal.”
“More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity:”

Source : Catharine Arnold (2008). “Necropolis: London and Its Dead”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.”

Source : Jewell Parker Rhodes (2012). “The Marie Laveau Mystery Trilogy: Season, Moon, and Hurricane”, p.385, Simon and Schuster
“I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.”
“By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of a daily adventure than it could possibly be if everyone were alike.”

Source : Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing
“That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.”
“It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.”

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