Amanda Jones

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong … The only crime is pride. Sophocles”
― Nick Clegg, How To Stop Brexit

“I have often heard the advice, “When you’re feeling bad, go out into the night and look at the stars.” Why it is so healing is a mystery, but it has something to do with remembering my actual position in it all. At a deeper level, knowing that we are made of the same elements grounds me; sensing that the same process forms us from those elements moves me to my core.”
― Katherine Robertson-Pilling, The Wheel of Creativity: Taking Your Place in the Adventure of Life

“it is a prison. And its bars are made of murderous hypocrisy”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Hard grind got us the glory, the saying goes—but sloth will slide us back into the sea. And these days, the rising waters feel so near.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist