Louise Catch

“I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees.

"But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“somehow it went from too soon to too late, without the right moment in between.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“To be normal’, he said, ‘is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.”
― Anthony Stevens, Jung: A Very Short Introduction