Rebecca

“Sam's doctor said to him, "The good news is that the pain is in your head."
But I am in my head, Sam thought.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“My parents. They’ve been married thirty years, but my father still discovers things about my mother that shock him.’ ‘Really,’ Thora drawls. ‘Does your mum say the same thing about your dad?’ He looks confused, then wary. ‘Why?’ ‘Because that’s a classic thing men say when they don’t want to engage with women as people. Oh, she’s such a mystery, when she’s been telling you for the past thirty years what she wants and you just haven’t been listening.”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“She wonders if everyone feels it, this hunger to live every life, to exist as every possible version of herself. ‘There’s always a moment, isn’t there?’ she says, flicking her cigarette end off the fire escape and watching it fall. ‘A moment when you choose. This path, or another one. What if I’d chosen something different?”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa