Hanna

“Everyone sees that this cannot go on. Everything is strained to such a degree that it will certainly break,” said Pierre (as those wha examine the actions of any government have always said since governments began).”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The danger with detail, for a storyteller, is to put in too much of it: to be so in love with one’s research that one wants the reader to fall in love with it as well. But the reader rarely does.”
― Lionel Davidson, Kolymsky Heights

“Well, although it is thankfully still quite infrequent that anyone should lose their life completely whilst waiting for a taxi, it is certainly commonplace for many people to lose a considerable amount of their life whilst engaged in this often traumatic pursuit. It is the ghostly manifestations of these frustrated, bored, miserable spirits that haunt our taxi ranks.”
― S.P. O'Byrne, The Perfect Partner

“Morning, noon & bloody night,
Seven sodding days a week,
I slave at filthy WORK, that might
Be done by any book-drunk freak.
This goes on until I kick the bucket.
FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica