Anantha Lakshmi

“Arrange your face”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“We are doorways, openings into something greater than ourselves, something that we don't understand and will never understand. We have nothing precious in and of ourselves. We are only precious in that we are part of something that is too big to know.”
― Eleanor Morse, White Dog Fell from the Sky

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall