Lucy Clayton

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz

“They were giving their childhood to this woman! They were starting at seven, and by the time they were sixteen they were still reading bloody Harry Potter—sixteen-year-olds, wearing wizard outfits, who should have been shagging behind the bike shed and smoking marijuana and reading Camus.”
― Alan Taylor

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984