Chronically Bookish Steph

“She had given too much for too long and now she would give no more. She did not want to belong to anyone.”
― Helen Russell, Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk

“There were days in life that rolled by and were never really thought of again. And then there were days that were so beloved or important that they contained inside them everything that came after. Russian doll days, that were always inside the expanding future.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“He read because stories gave him room to grow beyond the world he was given. They helped him feel as if the lives he read about intertwined with his own, like threads in an ever-expanding rope. Stories made him strong.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“she wanted to drink a Negroni in the sun, to have her bones warmed. She wanted apricity–a word she’d recently learned from a lexicographer on Radio 4 that meant the feeling of the sun warming her back.”
― Helen Russell, Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk