Lisa Hendry

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“Since I learned to read I've used them as a kind of anaesthetic.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz