Bethal

“nobody talked loudly about growing up in a council flat on a skyscraper estate with a single mother who worked as a cleaner
nobody talked loudly about never having gone on a single holiday, like ever
nobody talked loudly about never having been on a plane, seen a play or the sea, or eaten in a restaurant, with waiters
nobody talked loudly about feeling too uglystupidfatpoor or just plain out of place, out of sorts, out of their depth”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“Lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places