Lucy Arbuckle

“But there was something telling about that photograph, I thought; our protective glass frame shattered and now here we were, punctured with microscopic holes that might one day tear. Those holes all had names: mortgage, adolescent child, lack of communication, retirement savings, cancer.”
― Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby

“Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist