Joël Wernli

“But there was that essence everyone forgets when a love recedes into the past—how it was, how it felt and tasted to be together through seconds, minutes and days, before everything that was taken for granted was discarded then overwritten by the tale of how it all ended, and then by the shaming inadequacies of memory.”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

“He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“But whatreallyhappened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
― Brad Meltzer