Clara

“I don't know why I thought of Dottie as my friend but I did. I believe she thought the same way about me although she really didn't like me. In those days, among the people I mixed with, one had friends almost by predestination. There they were, like your winter coat and your meagre luggage. You didn't think of discarding them just because you didn't altogether like them.”
― Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent

“This love is supposed to be part of the compensation of doing our job. But people are less comfortable considering that love is not compensation; love is work.…”
― Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

“Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“If the utopianism of American agrarianism is a dream of land liberated from commercial interests, then whiteness is also the dream that workers can become liberated from having class interests.”
― Alice Sparkly Kat, Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor