Claire

“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

“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

“The infancy of my playing was fostered by an absence of criticism. The wisdom of the old people was incalculable.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“I chose Ganga's method for dealing with catastrophe and pretended nothing had happened. It wasn't so easy. The scene not only stayed with me, it grew larger for not being spoken and proved perhaps the theorem of imaginary numbers by showing that imagination is many times the size of reality.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness