Rachel

“And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons