Kelly

“Not until people start seeing typos eating out of their garbage cans at night will they regret hunting proofreaders almost to extinction.”
― Anonymous, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

“When someone you love dies, you lose them in pieces over time, but you also get them back in pieces: little fragments of memory come rushing back through what they cared about, what brought them joy. If you’re lucky, you get little pieces back for the rest of your life.”
― Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

“Birds are not difficult to understand. Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It is raining. I do not like it.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“I paid extra for a phone with regressions instead of updates. It prompts me to return to myself as of this morning, last week, 1986”
― Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt