Leigh Briar

“Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“Strange, what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which stories.”
― Kathleen Jennings, Flyaway

“So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“No story was just a story, though. It was a suitcase stuffed with secrets.”
― Kate Forsyth, The Wild Girl