Emily Jayne

“Do your time before it does you.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“I rationalized that there are only so many notes and therefore only so many combination of notes, so it stood to reason that there are so many songs.”
― Paul Beatty, The White Boy Shuffle

“In no time, the platoon were on their feet in front of him, formed up into two ranks, and it struck him suddenly, and probably for the first time in his military career, that these men with their drilled precision were dead parts of dead machines that didn't produce anything.”
― Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March

“It was strange how sometimes scenes one has never witnessed could appear before the mind’s eye more profoundly than memories from actual life,”
― Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North