JP Higgins

“winds of history, found himself reciprocating. Writing checks with his mouth that his ass could never hope to cover.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Tenderness and absolute trust and communication and truth: these things matter more and more as one grows older.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea

“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

“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