Hans Zahniser

“All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. ”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation...
...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders