Anna

“To be sure, no novel will deceive the best type of reader...He can enter, while he reads, into each author's point of view without either accepting or rejecting it, suspending when necessary his disbelief and (what is harder) his belief.”
― C.S. Lewis

“For it was a truth that mothers, having already lost their liberty when they bore children, having been tethered to the earth with this new soft tender body they must now protect forever, were the ones who understood the delicate balance between the price of freedom and the price of their children's lives.”
― 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