Leah Johnson

“How would he know? He’s never been to a museum and seen art from Cézanne to Savage. Basquiat to Kahlo. He’s never eaten in a universal commissary with choices from udon to bucatini, Irish stew to pepián. Just because someone says something over and over doesn’t make it true. And suddenly, after all this time, I truly understand what the word dogma means.”
― Donna Barba Higuera, The Last Cuentista

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“But he does worry about it—in the long hours of darkness. And then, in the morning, he forgets the weakness of the night.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“No one tells you when you’re young that when you’re middle-aged”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends