Davina Powell

“With all due respect, what you read is more important in the long term than the man you marry, ma chère Madame.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“I can’t think where the time went.’ ‘Where it always goes, Mr Sánchez,’ I said. He laughed. Then he stopped and looked as if he was about to cry. ‘So where is all that time, Augusta?’ he said. ‘Perhaps we’ll find it in heaven,’ I said, which was a surprising thing to say, and came out of my mouth without me thinking about it. ‘Or would it be hell?’ said Mr Sánchez. ‘If you found the past, all piled up by the side of the road. All the things you’d ever said. All the things you’d ever thought. All the things you’d ever done.”
― Joanna Glen, The Other Half of Augusta Hope

“product here is not so much books as that goal of ten thousand years of history, the thing the human brain craves above all else and nature will die refusing to give: convenience. Ease is the disease and Nick is its vector. His employers are a virus that will one day live symbiotically inside everyone. Once you’ve bought a novel in your pajamas, there’s no turning back.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Like all mothers”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River