Donn Mathern

“Like frustrated suburban wives we fed on each other’s discontent; we became divided into mean little cliques and subdivided into jealously shifting pairs of buddies, and we pieced out our idleness with gossip.”
― Richard Yates, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

“Death is the ultimate test of faith.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“An artist needs a broken world in order to have pieces to shape into art. . . . Comfort is death to art.”
― Chaim Potok, The Gift of Asher Lev

“What's that Einstein quote about expecting different results from the same person? I shouldn't feel bad - I'm here, aren't I, I'm not the parent who didn't even text. Or the one who locked themselves in their bedroom half of Christmas. Talking like this, it's become clear that we are the main parts. This has all been about us, the sisters. I hadn't realised. I tell my mouth not to share these thoughts and Dana offers me another cigarette.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes