Jacquie

“Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Why do they hate us so much anyway?’ I asked after a lengthy pause. ‘If they’re not queer themselves, then what does it matter to them if someone else is?’ ‘I remember a friend of mine once telling me that we hate what we fear in ourselves,’ she said with a shrug.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

“Do you enjoy being a writer, Mrs Avery?” asked Julian.
“No, of course not, she said. “It’s a hideous profession. Entered into by narcissists who think their pathetic little imaginations will be of interest to people they’ve never met.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

“The notion that he had a life outside our life, outside our friendship, was deeply hurtful to me.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies