Karoline V

“Don't we all go through life in the same ignorance of who we are, ready to rush at any description of ourselves that would give us the illusion of having a simple identity that can be summed up in a few words?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, Orlanda

“Between the day that has just ended and the one that is about to begin there is a moment of absolute suspense. I awaken and perhaps I no longer know who I am nor who is asleep beside me, so I quickly invent a name, a story in which to pour my anguish. I construct an identity, but how can I be sure that today's is truly the same as yesterday's, or that the world exists?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, Orlanda

“A house, unlatched, is less a house and more a set of rooms through which one might be hunted.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“ Sometimes I think hope is a far less satisfying feeling than despair.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites