Louise Catch

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

“There are several kinds of happiness, Washington. Sometimes it is not for us to choose, or even understand, the one granted us.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“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