Lauren

“With all due respect, what you read is more important in the long term than the man you marry, ma chère Madame.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I’m sick of making my own decisions. They’re never the right ones. Ignorance is the sweetest medicine, my father used to say. I don’t want to know.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself