Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was...
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Sometimes it's better not to look back.
—Ransom Riggs in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children