Clara 101

“some people go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain; and”
― Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories