Dinah Steveni

“We had once what we can never have again. So why, then, do we behave as if everything we have connected with, everything we have blessed with our loving, should be ours for keeps? It is enough to have tiptoed to that space beyond the skin, beyond our nerve endings, and to have glimpsed things that beforehand we only half knew.”
― Rachel Joyce, A Faraway Smell of Lemon

“How can so many things become a bore by middle age — philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods — but heartbreak keeps its sting?”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“Like all true eccentrics, he thought other people very odd.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

“She would be happy -- but not excessively so....”
― Kate Atkinson, Transcription