Anna

“Bad times traditionally produce good books.”
― Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

“Change was incessant, and change perhaps would never cease. High battlements of thought, habits that had seemed durable as stone, went down like shadows at the touch of another mind and left a naked sky and fresh stars twinkling in it.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Every decent friendship comes with a drop of hatred. But that hatred is like honey in the tea. It makes it addictive.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

“Surely it must be smaller than my own far greater country across the waters, where each field is so thick with legend and myth and ancient battles that one step is not merely in space, unlike in this new world, but also through layers of time. Here there is nothing, only land, all the earth and mountains and trees remain innocent of story. This place is itself a sheet of parchment yet to be written upon,”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds