7 Quotes by Lucy Dillon

I always say my biological clock must be digital, because I've never heard it ticking.

The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she scanned the shelves with greedy eyes. Libraries weren't quite the same, she'd found; something about the prosaic smell of other people's houses and fingers seeping off the pages diluted that sense of magical worlds, but untouched, unread, unexplored books were something else.

Nothing feels real, but that’s not a problem because she still hopes that at some point she’ll wake up and this will all have been a dream.

All it took was one person, telling you one thing, and everything could stop.

The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she scanned the shelves with greedy eyes. Libraries weren’t quite the same, she’d found; something about the prosaic smell of other people’s houses and fingers seeping off the pages diluted that sense of magical worlds, but untouched, unread, unexplored books were something else.

Forget about what came before, or what’s going to come. Focus on this exact moment, when you’ve got everything you need: this is living. Now. Now. And now.

I always say my biological clock must be digital, because I’ve never heard it ticking.