Alexandra Vandenberghe

“In their four years together she had often felt like this, both there and not there, connected, yet keeping a part of herself separate, as though for emergencies.”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

“Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.”
― Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.”
“That’s what people always say about places where they already are.”
― Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things