Anthony G

“How serious is it to cut out that little section behind the brow that separates what a Nice Girl Sees and Hears from What Really Happens.”
― Dawn Powell, Angels on Toast

“Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.”
― Dawn Powell, The Diaries, 1931-1965

“too—my god, what kind of brutal abomination dismisses the suffering of the majority of the world’s population as worth sustaining a tiny number of pinheaded elites—is proof enough that we don’t deserve a future. I”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan

“That’s why I can never be happy with simple, good people”, she thought. “It isn’t enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!”
― Dawn Powell, Come Back to Sorrento