Sarah Smith

“I don’t care for the ants in Texas,” he said, adjusting his collar. “They’re too big and they bite.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“I don’t want to rule the world, I don’t want to control it, I don’t even want to influence it. I want to sit beside you in a little garden, I want to put your needs before mine, I want to fetch you a glass of water when you’re thirsty. I want to laugh at your jokes, even the bad ones, and bury my head in proverbial sand.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“For though they were not sung, it was the mothers, the daughters and the wives who kept the world turning, the fires lit, the lights burning.”
― Claire North, The Last Song of Penelope