Iris

“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

“of becoming a curator seemed so impossible, so far removed from the life I was living, that I felt like I had more chance of becoming an astronaut than I ever would of actually getting my dream career off the ground.”
― Mike Gayle, The Museum of Ordinary People

“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

“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