Karen

“On the first day of his holiday Laurence Manders woke to hear his grandmother’s voice below.
‘I’ll have a large wholemeal. I’ve got my grandson stopping for a week, who’s on the BBC. That’s my daughter’s boy, Lady Manders. He won’t eat white bread, one of his fads.’
Laurence shouted from the window, ‘Grandmother, I adore white bread and I have no fads.”
― Muriel Spark, The Comforters

“The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.”
― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing

“Humanity, it seemed, was looking for a new direction and believed the Community would provide it.”
― Carole Hailey, The Silence Project

“Lust opens your eyes, passion opens your heart, but love opens your soul.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo