Kate

“IN SUCH RISINGS of fire and risings of sea—the firm earth shaken by the rushes of an angry ocean which had now no ebb, but was always on the flow, higher and higher, to the terror and wonder of the beholders on the shore—three years of tempest were consumed.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Heather had grown up starved of love, and when you’re starved of something you should receive in abundance, you never quite trust it.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“Speaking Mandarin with a Russian accent is extremely difficult. Of all the languages I have learned, Mandarin took me the longest, and having to replicate the suitable tones while simultaneously presenting myself as a rather bumbling Soviet scholar was an exercise that caused me considerable distress. In”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“It looked like girls were controlled by their feelings but the opposite was true. Girls had excellent control of their feelings. They spun them around like batons: Now I’m crying! Now I’m laughing! Who knows what I’ll do next! Not you! A boy’s emotions were like baseball bats that blindsided him.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers