Silvia

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“She had always hoped that Jane could have looked out over her surroundings and thought: ‘I can create a better world than this’, or ‘You’re much too unbearably boring, and perhaps I can’t say anything about it without being impolite, but you are going to be absolutely wonderful in my next book. I need another ridiculous minister.’ Still, Sara couldn’t help but wonder what life must be like if you couldn’t daydream about Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy (how had she decided on that name? One of literary history’s most inexplicable mysteries), because you yourself had created him.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

“You can't have too much dog in a book.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine