Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
If everything that will ever happen has happened, and is happening, at last I understand how it might be possible to fall in love at a glance, and know a stranger like a lover—perhaps already that love and all the events that followed were already unfolding elsewhere, and elsewhen.
Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
There are so many ways the dead show us they are with us. Sometimes they stay deliberately absent, in order to prove themselves by returning. Sometimes they stay close and then leave in order to prove they were with us. Sometimes they bring a stag to a graveyard, a cardinal to a fence, a song on the wireless as soon as you turn it on. Sometimes they bring a snowfall.
Anne Michaels, Held