Elizabeth

“Beside the road cows are lazily chewing grass. They show zero interest in the runners. They're too busy eating grass to care about all these whimsical people and their nonsensical activities. And for their part the runners don't have the leisure to pay attention to what the cows are up to, either.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!”
― Jeanette Winterson

“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."

[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]”
― Junot Diaz

“I'm out of knives for the time being”
― Evie Wyld, All the Birds, Singing