Silvia

“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

“Oh thank God. I can’t imagine explaining “sleep” to someone who had never heard of it. Hey, I’m going to fall unconscious and hallucinate for a while. By the way, I spend a third of my time doing this. And if I can’t do it for a while, I go insane and eventually die. No need for concern.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“I wish now that I'd valued more the words that tumbled freely out of him before he was taken. I wish I'd collected them and kept them safely in packages that I wrapped up carefully, secured with a ribbon, and stored in a safe place for the future. I wish I hadn't been too distracted to listen to every word he said.”
― Gilly Macmillan, What She Knew

“She had never been someone who believed you needed to have met in person to be friends - many of her most rewarding relationships had been with people who didn't even exist.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend