Liz Rix

“Most kingdoms or nations just say, ‘we rule because we’re strongest’ or ‘we rule because a god threw a thunderbolt and willed it so.’ We’re the country who said, ‘Here we are; let’s live by these principles and keep getting better at living up to them.”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

“There was no horizon. I never thought I would lose the horizon along with everything else, but when you get old you realize whichever direction you choose to face, you find yourself confronted with a landscape filled up with loss. “Perhaps”
― Joanna Cannon, Three Things About Elsie

“I often wondered what kind of slip I would be written on if I was a word. Something too long, certainly. Probably the wrong colour. A scrap of paper that didn’t quite fit. I worried that perhaps I would never find my place in the pigeon-holes at all.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“People seem to put all their energy into ignoring each other instead.”
― Joanna Cannon, Three Things About Elsie