Katie

“Hardly anyone took any notice of the political decisions at the time, but now the storm has arrived and the first thing to collapse over in Hed is the roof of the ice rink. At the same time a man is running through Beartown to save twelve flagpoles. A storm strikes a forest, one ice rink collapses and another remains standing, this will soon drive the inhabitants of two towns into a new battle for resources, and it will finish the way everything seems to finish around here: with violence. So much will have happened by then that we’ll have forgotten how it all started, but it starts here. Now.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“This is why I write, I do it for the alchemy. I cannot just experience things. This is how I experience things.”
― Melissa Broder, Death Valley

“Sawbridge used to say that a good historian tells us what’s in the records, and a great historian tells us what isn’t.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“We are so accustomed to seeing this image that we barely notice the cruelty which underpins the story: it’s just a hero and his trophy.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths