Anna

“By comparison, the Titanic sank in two hours, forty minutes. Pretty impressive, to have sunk to the bottom even faster than the twentieth century’s greatest shipwreck. Especially considering I was only sixteen. I didn’t even have a driver’s license, but I was an expert in the art of catastrophe.”
― Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

“It can be boring to watch snowflakes falling with your eyes fixed in one place, but when you follow a single snowflake from up high, when you follow its aerobatics, you embark on an intoxicating adventure.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Vango: Entre ciel et terre

“As they say in the theater, suspend your disbelief. Otherwise, the reality of this world is very much like yours and mine.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“By the time they'd finished their tea, they were almost in love with each other — not quite yet, because true love took time and memories, but as close to love as first impressions could take them. The days had not yet come when Ramy wore Victoire's sloppily knitted scarves with pride, when Robin learned exactly how long Ramy liked his tea steeped so he could have it ready when he inevitably came to the Buttery late from his Arabic tutorial, or when they all knew Letty was about to come to class with a paper bag full of lemon biscuits because it was a Wednesday morning and Taylor's bakery put out lemon biscuits on Wednesdays. But that afternoon they could see with certainty the kind of friends they would be, and loving that vision was close enough.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel