
“The way her fingers flutter through the space around her. Each a thing he hopes never to forget.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom — the clothing of the grave — that some people believe she is already fitted for.
Address on accepting The Churchman Award, New York (23 May 1944)
“The way her fingers flutter through the space around her. Each a thing he hopes never to forget.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“My first wife, I'll never forget her — and I've tried.”
Stage performance on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QoyQwfarn0
That's Someone You Never Forget, from Pot Luck, written by Elvis Presley and Red West (1961)
Song lyrics
"Little Miss S."
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643), Introduction
“He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?”
Source: The English Patient
Kilimandjaro (1852), Stanza 2; later published in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 73.