Ida Ottesen

“Why should the past be any guarantee of the future?”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“Loneliness hardened in Arthur's stomach....
Frequently he could feel his loneliness: he could locate it with his fingers and if pushed too hard, it hurt. If he ate quickly, it hurt. He drank a lot of water, to flush it out, but it never came. He kept expecting to see it after he'd visited the lavatory. Small and blue. Afraid. He did not know what he would do with it. He did not know what he would do without it.”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“You might say the problem is with me and your readers will, I’m sure. There’s nothing so hateful as a woman who gets involved with another woman’s husband. Never mind the husband’s part: he was tricked or seduced, most likely, and it’s funny how men insist on power in all aspects of their lives except when it does not suit them, and then they’re content to be feeble and let the women take responsibility”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“That is what mortals do: first they ask, then they beg, finally they bargain.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships