Lotte

“We haven’t met properly,” I said, as she threaded me through housekeeping carts vomiting fluffy white towels. “People call me Ern.” “As in, cremated?” “It’s short for Ernest.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

“The odds had been stacked against us from the start: we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe that we deserved to get away with happiness?”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“I had always liked the act of leaving, the expanse between departure and arrival when you’re seemingly nowhere, defined by another kind of time.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“Owe, owe, owe. You use that word so much. A family is not a credit card.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone