Marion

“But I think La Presencia has given us the understanding that mathematical purity is everywhere. We are inside it. Nothing is random. Not life, not death. Not even randomness. Not even us two here making this dirt into a garden. All of it connects. Everything is part of this whole. This beautiful fabric. Heaven isn’t somewhere else. Nor is everyone we have lost. We are tied to them. The strings are in us. Am I making sense?”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

“tulle crinolines and”
― Elise Hooper, The Library of Lost Dollhouses

“Women vanish far too easily. Your work shouldn’t be hidden. Art’s not meant to be locked away, my dear.” Belva rattled the ice in her glass. “It’s meant to connect us, to make us cry and laugh, to make us feel less alone.”
― Elise Hooper, The Library of Lost Dollhouses

“(When you hit your seventies the whole world is basically one big crèche and everyone in it an abandoned toddler.) It wasn’t the clothes”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible