Tonya Ramlall

“Sister Sasaki stayed beside him all that time, holding his hand, so that he might die knowing that, living, he had pleased her.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“This disaster was perfectly predictable, Randy realized. He had been a fool. Instead of buying fresh meat, he should have bought canned meats by the case. If there was one thing he certainly should have foreseen, it was the loss of electricity.”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon

“The vastness, the tiny body, eternity and the clock that accused the time of passing; it all made even less sense here than it had in Egypt or France. He had seen so many deaths. But there was something about the quietness of this one: as though, in the absence of the gunfire and the shouting, he were observing it unobscured for the first time.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“No one else can close the door that God has opened for you,” she quietly said under her breath. That was something that Grandma Alice had said to her many times before her death.

“I miss you, Alice,” she whispered, “and wish you were here with me now.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position