Walter Aid

“I looked back at the two of them. I knew I didn't have the sharpest knives carving my Christmas turkey but I had what I had.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“It will pain me to see you two make fools of yourselves trying to avoid one another."
"I barely see him, I won't look foolish."
Valgu looked unconvinced.
"The times I do see him, I can use one of your aloof expressions that I've been practicing."
"Good idea, he'll never see through that."
"I'm not going to cry openly, or sit around pining for him. I'll pretend it doesn't hurt, until it really doesn't. I know how to do that.”
― Andrea Luhman, Missing Wings

“Yes. You’re a good listener. That’s dangerous, because it’s so hard to resist. Being listened to—really listened to—is the second-best thing in the world.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“We seemed to have arrived at a reality only to abandon it or exchange it for something that claimed to be another reality.”
― Günter Grass, Peeling the Onion