Jacque Ni

“My point is that there is nothing tragic in me knowing that the best days of my life are behind me.”
― Graham Norton, Frankie

“Anyway, he continues, what I really missed in the lockdowns was buying coffee. Sipping a flat white. If my identity is so fragile it depends on a flat white to keep it together, I can’t see the point of those years reading difficult theory and philosophy. Capitalism sold a flat white to me as if it were a cup of freedom.”
― Deborah Levy

“Some how, some way, the child assuaged the tiny yet eternal yearning for the home Lina once knew where everyone had anything and no one had everything.”
― Toni Morrison, A Mercy

“Depressed enough to wonder if Hemingway's real achievement in the early great novels was that of a travel writer who taught a provincial American audience what dishes to order, what drinks to prefer and how to deal with the European servant class.”
― E. L. Doctorow