JP Higgins

“I have never lacked people, usually women, longing to drive me whithersoever I wanted. Why keep bitches and bark yourself?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea

“Her dreams are spare, lack the propulsion of a mission, her ambition is without traction.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“And of course when I say that my dear father was a failure I mean it only in the grossest worldly sense. He was an intelligent good man, pure in heart.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea