Aaron OldenburgI have a file of quotes I highlighted when I was reading Samantha Harvey's The Wilderness. Sometimes I read them again out of context and am blown away all over again.
"Eleanor is there and then not. He sees her hunched over and he is moved, wants to put her up straight, hold her, talk to her about the past. Then he sees pink nails, makeup, and gets the giddying sense of the stranger emerging and eclipsing her. And then he thinks he must have made a mistake because she is hardly Eleanor at all except for in outline; if he could grab her and hold her still she might remain as he knows her, but she moves, and the movement confuses him."
I'm currently reading her book The Western Wind and feeling like why would I ever read anything else? This space is all I need. Of course, it will end an I'll read other things, but this is a nice place to be.