Peter

“It's better to talk when you're with a person, anyway - when their voice isn't torn loose from their body, when you can see them.”
― Andrey Kurkov, Grey Bees

“There's a reason why saints are martyred. Nobody can stand them.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

“There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“It did seem as if Hermione, like the moon, had only one side to her penny. There was no obverse. She stared out all the time on the narrow, but to her, complete world of the extant consciousness. In the darkness, she did not exist.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love