Chris Barnes

“Exert some independence; you're not a little girl. You can't let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world, she said.
I've never forgotten those words.”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I'd become fond of him, despite the fact that his constant presence annoyed me.”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta