Polly Baker

“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“Crouched across from her, Toothwort has darkened, his foliate head has ripened into moulde, fungus and brown ripples,sweaty, heavy with rot and enzymes. He smells like natural truth, like sex and death.”
― Max Porter, Lanny

“Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?”
― Max Porter, Lanny

“Olanna felt the slow sadness of missing a person who was still there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun