Erin

“Catriona sat quietly in her chair, her body tense. I don’t want to, she thought. I want to just not see people for a while; I want to roll up on a bed and read a romantic novel and not think.”
― Evie Dunmore, The Gentleman's Gambit

“The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“One can be happy in eternal solitude: a book, a cup of tea, and no company; that was Cecilia’s idea of heaven. Having spent the past week surrounded by people, and thwarted at every turn in her efforts to locate a library, she was now feeling as if she had endured an upper circle of hell.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“THE CANDLE had burned out when I returned to my lodgings. The rooms were chill and unwelcoming; in the corner of my bedroom”
― H.G. Parry, A Far Better Thing