Ángela D.

“I’m going to love her in all the quiet ways, the slow ways, the loud and obnoxious ways.”
― B.K. Borison, Lovelight Farms

“Sadness keeps attempting to tie weights to her wrists and ankles, therefore she has to keep moving, she has to outpace it.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

“I don't think . . . there's much real difference between men and women. That is, there wouldn't be, if women had fair treatment.”
― George Gissing, The Odd Women

“First published in 1988, A Far Cry from Kensington is a conscious exercise in looking back – it is a novel that announces its own preoccupied insomnia. But its insomnia is unexpectedly pleasant, a beloved wakefulness in the ‘sweet waking hours of the night’ – as if the usual dark night of the soul has been replaced by something much, much lighter.”
― Muriel Spark, A Far Cry From Kensington