Ashley Lamont

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.”
― Iris Murdoch

“The night is huge and it hurts.”
― Max Porter, Shy

“Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.”
― Iris Murdoch

“They try and figure each other out, because there's fuck-all else to do. They each carry a private register of who is genuinely not OK, who is liable to go psycho, who is hard, who is a pussy, who is actually alright, and friendship seeps into the gaps of these false registers in unexpected ways, just as hatred does, just as terrible loneliness does.”
― Max Porter, Shy