Wendy

“A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand thousand stories—of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in its body’s keeping always longing to be known. She”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“tough message of Lolly Willowes is that women turn witch to show their ‘scorn of pretending life’s a safe business’. Laura comes to feel part of a community of angry, outsider women: ‘When I think of witches,’ she says, ‘I seem to see all over England, all over Europe, women living and growing old, as common as blackberries, and as unregarded … Nothing for them except subjugation and plaiting their hair … But they must be active.’ Yes we must.”
― Samantha Ellis, How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much

“Otherwise, I adhere to that which happened, in all its horror, its desolation, and its bloody-minded opacity.”
― Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest: A novel

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons