Lupina

“Childhood is played out in a foreign language and our memory of it is a Constance Garnett translation.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“The things we see are only masks for the things we can't see.”
― Anthony Doerr, About Grace

“The sun flashed off the wet blades, splinters of light, then the oars dipped, were tugged, and the beast-headed boats surged, and I stared entranced.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

“Noah, however, was a son of a bitch of a captain who ran a very tight ship. Only pairs of the best and the brightest were allowed to climb the plank—perpetuate the species, repopulate the planet, and all that Nazi nonsense. Would Noah have allowed a lesbian zebra aboard, an unmarried hedgehog, a limping lemur?”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman