JD Robles

“While he dropped fortunes at roulette and insisted on his guests having the best view and every delicacy in restaurants, he himself would often walk home or take the Underground rather than choose the comfort of a cab.”
― Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma

“She had learned, with Izzy’s birth, how your life could trundle along on its safe little track and then, with no warning, skid spectacularly off course.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Nothing is an accident,” Pauline would say, again and again.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere