Quotes from Bella Bathurst

You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.

The great unsold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they're about study and solitude, but because they're about connection. Connection with other worlds and different views, even if that's no more than being among other people thinking and breathing.

She had a conversation with a man with a beard, and youre saying she hangs around graveyards at night and bags off with the undead?

But she kept on hoping - really, stupidly hoping - that someone one day would understand what she meant. That one day she'd have a proper conversation with someone instead of just a series of audible misconnections.

She found she had become two different people. Each one spoke differently, dressed differently, and ate different things, laughed at different jokes, had different interests. If one had met the other, they probably wouldn't have liked each other.

and a man at the back who Jules considered surprisingly good looking for somone who believed in god.

Crying was a good example of how things had changed in the last few days. She used to beleive that crying provoked consolation from others. Now she knew that crying provoked nothing except the sound of its own sadness.

Friends who seemed somehow to be slipping towards unfriends.