Iris

“If you’d be happy to live in a magical dictatorship, where the leader goes permanently unchallenged and can do whatever they want to, including torture, death and corruption of the highest order, then yes, Ms Wilde, things could be worse.”
― Helen Harper, Slouch Witch

“The reality is pain—you said that! But it’s the lies, the evasions of reality, that drive you crazy. It’s the lies that make you want to kill yourself”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“didn’t know how I could bare to part with them, seeing them clean.”
― Gwen Hunter, Delayed Diagnosis

“Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt