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

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

“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely,”
― Anthony Stevens, Jung: A Very Short Introduction

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