Jayson Kercheff

“The Chinese language is extremely hard to learn. It is the only major linguistic system in the world that does not have an alphabet; and it is composed of numerous complicated characters – ideograms – which have to be memorised one by one and, moreover, are totally unrelated to sounds.”
― Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

“Cathy's a nice person, in a forceful sort of way. She makes you notice her kindness. Her niceness is writ large, it is her defining quality and she needs it acknowledged.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
― Sara Pascoe