Rose Bowett

“How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?”
― Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

“And we live quietly so as not to hurt one another.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“What one longs to do above all, I think, is to reinvent appearances, make it stranger, and more exciting. That's what's so extraordinary about Velazquez: he reinvented the very outline of appearance. You only have to look at the way things are in his paintings. He managed to come back to appearance by way of something that lay quite outside the kind of illustration that was expected of him at the time.”
― Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon in Your Blood

“Each scene felt unreal and strangely distant, as though I were viewing it through two or three layers of glass, but the events had undoubtedly happened to me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood