Claire

“Holding out was a quirk in human nature and those who lived in the Last Minute had found not only was there no penalty in lateness but often a bonus not granted the timely.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“I was overwhelmed by an undefinable sensation, too serene to be called anxiety, but unpleasant enough not to go unnoticed.”
― Guadalupe Nettel, The Accidentals: Stories

“Even up to my very last day with her I never used to get used to or anticipate the sudden shifts, the sunlight and shadow, the precipitous climate changes in her moods. But I had learned to stand just outside the range of their clawing, lashing fury. Or so I thought. I often miscalculated. In truth I am constructed from its debris.”
― Arundhati Roy

“There in the kitchen, I flushed into the roots of my hair and felt the stirring of a family trait I hadn't realised I possessed until right then, but which would inform the kind of life I would end up living, that is, what authority provoked in me was a desire to be an outlaw.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness