Pip

“the only fluid in his body is tears.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“And as they talk, she realises everything that tilts the balance in his favour upsets some other internal measure. She feels as though she has entered a funfair house of mirrors, where whatever is there in front of her may not be what it seems.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“His expression morphs each time she pictures it. Sometimes he is benign, sometimes stern, almost maleficent. A word so close to magnificent, she thinks, sent off-course by maleness. But his expression is irrelevant. Far more important is the question of where he was going. And who might be waiting for him at the other end.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“Somewhere, during the past twenty years or so, I had forgotten the sheer beauty and the wonder of being alive, in a world teeming with life. I promised myself in that moment that I would do my utmost never to forget that again.”
― Beth Moran, How Not To Be A Loser