Anna

“I believe for most of us - for me, certainly - what's below the skin is more worth looking at than what's outside it. Turn me inside out and I'd be quite a handsome man!”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

“...you can only value something if you've experienced it.”
― Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child

“Oh, for Time's sake, this is too pathetic. You'd end the universe, because you've had a bad century?”
― Catherine Webb, Waywalkers

“in the end it was purpose I wanted, not achievement — you see the difference?”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent