Kate

“A man three parts moustache to one part facial features responded to “Darling!” with the dutiful twitch of one who has chosen not to fight the inevitable. “Mr August is British, would you ever have guessed?”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“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 is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― 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