Lady Willpower

“You might travel to the other side of the world, but in the end it made no difference: whatever devastating unhappiness was inside you would come too.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

“When you hurt people," he says, "even if you didn't mean to, you don't get to choose where they go from there. When you hurt someone, it stops being about you, or what you want.”
― Katie Henry, Heretics Anonymous

“It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls and ceilings. The weight of what has been said can lie heavily on what might yet be said and suffocate it. By the river the air carries the story on a journey: one sentence drifts away and makes way for the next.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“I don't like books which give me the answers. I love books that give me the questions”
― Suzy Davies