David N

“Men tell stories,” I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. “Women get on with it.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it’s possible to play it with a kind of joy?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Who was it that said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“The gentlemen among my readers will smile to themselves and say that women never did understand business, but the ladies may agree with me that Mrs Brandy understood her business very well, for the chief business of Mrs Brandy’s life was to make Stephen Black as much in love with her as she was with him. In”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell