Hannah

“For what is friendship but the discovery that I don’t want to tell my story—can’t tell my story—without your story?”
― Stanley Hauerwas, The Character of Virtue: Letters to a Godson

“He took up his usual position in the reading room in a chair next to the window and read on”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

“But well for the world that such life has been scattered over it”
― George MacDonald, The Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated Edition): Enriched edition. The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith…

“Fridays always felt different anyway. Friday afternoons especially. Everyone felt it, pupils and teachers alike. You could get away with more on a Friday afternoon because no one was entirely there anyway. Everyone was on a sort of threshold and often did and said anomalous things with the tacit understanding that in the cold light of Monday morning whatever had been said and done last thing on a Friday belonged to a completely different world and ought not to be acknowledged or referred to in any way, now that we were all so firmly installed back in this very familiar and boring one.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19