Danila

“They hold each other for their first tilting slow dance, and she thinks about the night she was seventeen, in the teachers' car park, the current between her and Will and the urge she had to both touch and not touch him. It felt dangerous, and this, she thinks, is the opposite. She feels steadied in Simon's arms. Propped up. With Will, she never knew where she was, how he might make her feel.”
― Claire Daverley, Talking at Night

“I’m aware that I had ideas about the future that I hadn’t discussed with myself.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“And those nine eventful days in France and the plans they made then—he'd let them go without acknowledgement, as if they'd never existed, or never been important to him and he never understood why.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends