Hilary

“If you’ll pardon me for making this somewhat prosaic observation – maybe that’s what life is, or ends up being most of the time: a rehearsal for a performance that never eventually materializes.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“It was herself she was exhausted by. She had lost the ability to keep her discrete worlds discrete—a skill that many consider to be the cornerstone of sanity. The traffic inside her head seemed to have stopped believing in traffic lights. The result was incessant noise, a few bad crashes and eventually gridlock.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“Funny how you have to picture losing a thing before you think you might value it after all.”
― Anne Tyler, Vinegar Girl