Lesley Macgregor

“I imagine, then, that we are all candle flames, greasy-bright, fluttering in the darkness and the howl of the wind, and in the stillness of the room I hear footsteps, awful coming footsteps, coming to blow me out and send my life up away from me in a grey wreath of smoke. I will vanish into the air and the night. They will blow us all out, one by one, until it is only their own light by which they see themselves.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“Sometimes, I swear, I’m invisible. And yet, frankly, David, I often find it to be a relief.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“Trust is a fragile commodity. Know your code of conduct and the values you stand for. Remember: if you wouldn’t want to explain it on ‘60 Minutes,’ don’t do it.”
― Gary Chapman, Rising Above a Toxic Workplace: Taking Care of Yourself in an Unhealthy Environment

“Miss Steele can a man make a greater blunder than to ignore the intuition of a woman?”
― Lyndsay Faye, Jane Steele