Amy

“Such impossible questions are essential to Great Circle and build to a central preoccupation: “What is the magnitude of one life? And what is the scale of one life versus the scale of this planet we live on? How much can you pack into a life, and what do you choose to make your life about?” Shipstead says, “It’s all of these questions.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”
― Paul Theroux

“Think about Pluto—how it continues to exist as itself, as always, oblivious to human categories. Remember that no one else gets to define you or determine your worth. Be a planet despite what they may call you. Keep moving.”
― Maggie Smith

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928