Jo Beretska

“It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeling that the story evokes, the questions that rise to your mind, rather than the fictional events described. They should teach you this in school, but they don’t.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

“There had been anguish, fear, indecision, then gradually the brightness of her presence cast beforehand, obliterating all else. Then I was with her and there was strange blankness, and utter calm of delight. Suddenly, down into the furthest crannies of being all was well. It was all so strangely simple too, with a blameless simplicity as of childhood.”
― Iris Murdoch, A Word Child

“What are you thinking, my love, my darling?'
'About you. I was wondering if you could make me happy. It would be fearfully difficult.'
'I'm fearfully clever, and I love you fearfully much.”
― Iris Murdoch, A Word Child