Ian Sear

“an avalanche of paperwork cascading on them from a government bureaucracy that measured its effectiveness by the number of people it could annoy and by the degree to which it could annoy them. Benny”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Some people say it gets easier, but I think you just adapt. The grief doesn’t go; you just mould yourself around it.”
― Jo Leevers, Tell Me How This Ends

“Henrietta can feel that familiar blank expression forming on her face, the one that protected her through her lonely schooldays and then university and jobs where nobody spoke to her. It’s the face that hides the rising panic of knowing that she’s failed again.”
― Jo Leevers, Tell Me How This Ends

“Sad people are the only real ones. They can tell you the truth about things; they have always known that there is no one you can depend upon forever and no change in your life, however great, that can keep you from being in the end what you were in the beginning: lost and lonely, sitting on an oilcloth watching the rest of the world do the butterfly stroke.”
― Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation