Joanna

“The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Every passage is one of blood, little girl. Birth and death, you are torn apart and re-created.”
― Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“London was voracious, was growing fat on its spoils and still, somehow, starved. London was both unimaginably rich and wretchedly poor. London - lovely, ugly, sprawling, cramped, belching, sniffing, virtuous, hypocritical, silver-gilded London - was near to a reckoning, for the day would come when it either devoured itself from the inside or cast outwards for new delicacies, labour, capital, and culture on which to feed.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel