Sophie

“Christ, let's go."
"Women shouldn't curse."
"Get fucked.”
― Erika Johansen, The Fate of the Tearling

“If the personalized playlists were full of sad singer-songwriters, I could only blame myself for getting the algorithm depressed.”
― Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley

“I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book.”
― Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

“It astonished me later to find how the readers found Warrender’s war record so convincing and full when I had said so little – one real war veteran of Burma wrote to say how realistic he found it – but since then I’ve come to learn for myself how little one needs, in the art of writing, to convey the lot, and how a lot of words, on the other hand, can convey so little.”
― Muriel Spark, Loitering With Intent