Lydia

“Love is transformative, but it doesn't make sense to wait for romantic love to do the work of happiness for you.”
― Amy Key, Arrangements in Blue

“I might say you should try being like a rat at a fair. To be clear, I don’t mean that you should gorge yourself on carnival garbage. I just think you should try to collect days like that.”
― Emily R. Austin, We Could Be Rats

“Perhaps that's why art in all its forms can feel like the purest expression of one soul to another. A means of transcending the boundaried self. It turns out Joni's Blue is the case of wine I can drink and still remain standing. Her Blue pours out of me, not in a way she might recognise or even find at all touching, but it's there, nevertheless. The soul forever pouring from one to another, making something new through art.”
― Amy Key, Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone

“We’d burned through everything, even what we’d no right to, rubbed out the stars and hid the moon, and if the night sky wasn’t already black, we’d have had a good go at making it.”
― Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills