Beth

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

“They've had a good life. Compatible from the start, a smooth coast. Like a pair of cross-country skis...never straying far from each other's sight, but keeping separate enough, with plenty of room to maneuver and come together again. It never occurred to him that her course might veer, that he would ever find her out of reach.”
― Lauren Acampora, The Wonder Garden

“Sometimes the sadness about you being gone comes and finds me after not being there for a while. Something makes me think about you and then I get sad for a long time.”
― Veera Hiranandani, The Night Diary

“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West