Louise Catch

“We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

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

“People always said you'd better be careful. Though how, when things are out of your hands, when things were never really in your hands, when things are stacked against you, does a person - the little person down here on the earth - be that?”
― Anna Burns, Milkman

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