Lorie Owens

“Oh, i can deal with the tragedy, it's the farce I can't handle.”
― Damon Galgut, The Promise

“Movies make you think civilization will end fast, like with aliens and explosions, but really it'll end slow. Ours is already ending, it's just ending too slow for people to notice.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Now the verandah was so silent I could hear the sound of the raindrops sliding off the leaves.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

“As she starts to read, the book travels into her from a long distance, from his mind to mine, across a gap in time, and now she’s not in the room any more, she’s inside the sentences, one joined to the next like a series of tunnels, connected to each other at angles.”
― Damon Galgut, The promise