April Lloyd

“The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

“Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice