"It’s like they’re talking about raindrops
when I’m living in a hurricane
It’s like they’re talking about aftershocks
when I’m standing in the earthquake"
— Jessica Lowndes, Nothing like this
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."