Anna

“A vulgar word, well placed and said with just enough vigour, can express far more than its polite equivalent.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“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

“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

“Overexposure to the pointed, posed, propagandized, insincere novels with a lesson to teach and an agenda to impose, has diminished our ability to be affected by true art.”
― Alice McDermott, What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction