Lesley Macgregor

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

“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

“But the idea that you can no longer trust your mind, that’s just about the most frightening thing there is. When you mess around with proportion or symmetry, or when doubt is injected into your perception of the laws of physics, your mind ceases to be a refuge. Your mind is no longer a safe house.”
― David Mitchell, Slade House