Natalie

“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw. They should be written as perfectly as possible, but what they do is to stir up, to lance the reader.”
― Edna O'Brien

“I wonder what of me there is in you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I wrote my own story
And still said all the wrong things.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“I think of this life, of my life, of the things I built and planted. I have been lucky to know such richness. But I also think of how my husband taught me something else, something so wrong I am stunned that I ever believed it: that in the face of the world's end love should shrink. (p.290)”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore