Mrs. Lloyd

“Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Familes are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars