Kathy

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Once in a while dancing is immaculate, a perfection: you understand why raves exist: when you’ve timed the drinks correctly and they lift your mood and your energy, the songs are ones you all know, and you look around at the girls, their happy lost faces, their beautiful bare stomachs, their jangly long earrings, something limbic, their skin just damp with sweat to the touch, the whole thing…”
― Charles Finch, The Last Enchantments

“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.”
― Charles Finch, The Last Enchantments

“Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.”
― Charles Finch, A Beautiful Blue Death