Harriet

“No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional, flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into ...”
― Anne Lamott

“Come close, you precious
Graces and Muses
With beautiful tresses.
Here is the reason: it is wrong
To play a funeral song
In the Musicians’ House –
It simply would not be decorous.”
― Sappho

“May gales and anguish sweep elsewhere
The killer of my character.
But I am hardly some backbiter bent
On vengeance; no, my heart is lenient.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“If they tried to restrict me too much, they might end up losing me altogether.”
― Manju Kapur, Difficult Daughters