Clara 101

“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

“Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything...”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Snow is bruised lilac in half-lite: such pure solace. You speak like an aesthete sometimes, Sonmi. Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively. So”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Everything will be destroyed no matter how hard we work to create it. The idea terrifies me. I want tiny permanents. I want gigantic permanents! I want what I think and who I am captured in an anthology of indulgence I can comfortingly tuck into a shelf in some labyrinthine library.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories