Suzy Shelor

“Only humans can know what it means to strip a human being of being human.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“Atlas gazed out, as he always did, into infinite space, wishing he could be part of it, even for one hour.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Weight

“Old and blended in, another worn feature of this worn city that no one notices much and no one will miss. How, she wondered, does that happen? In what year is it, exactly, that we begin to vanish, to fade into our surroundings as if they are absorbing us, pulling our bones back home?”
― Lucretia Grindle, The Villa Triste

“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov