Carmen

“In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.”
― Scarlett Thomas, Going Out

“There's no way out of this, it's stark: live or die. Every given moment a bubble that bursts. Step on, from one to the next, ever onwards, a rainbow of stepping stones, each bursting softly as your foot touches and passes on. Till one step finds only empty air. Till that step, live.”
― Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites