Clare James

“To the privileged, equality feels like a step down. Understand this and you understand a lot of populist politics today.’ İyad el-Baghdadi, Twitter, 1:36 p.m., 25 July 2016”
― Jonathan Coe, Middle England

“Childhood is a naturally unhappy period of our existence, Lillian. It was Walt Disney who invented the notion that it has to be happy, simply to make money.”
― Isabel Allende, The Japanese Lover

“The people are as bad, do you hear me? But the priests are still in control of ninety per cent of the schools. Do you think that if there was any other sector of society which has displayed such a predilection towards paedophilia we would let them within a mile of a school, let alone let them run the places? I mean what kind of country do we have here at all? We need to get rid of them, do you hear me? Put them out of every school. Keep them away from our children. Perversion is bred in their bones.”
― John Boyne, A History of Loneliness

“Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.”
― John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky