Kate Murray

“An amazing sight, someone you’re infatuated with trying to fish something out of a jeans pocket.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“Beautiful people lived in a different world, had different relations with people. From the beginning they were raised for love.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“She has seen dieback across the West. Aspens are withering. Grazed on by everything with hooves, cut off from rejuvenating fire, whole groves are vanishing. Now she sees a forest, spreading across these mountains since before humans left Africa, giving way to second homes. She sees it in one great glimpse of flashing gold: trees and humans, at war over the land and water and atmosphere. And she can hear, louder than the quaking leaves, which side will lose by winning.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“I am always half in life, half in a fantastical version of it in my head.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love