Carol

“I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”
― Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange

“Power, power, power: how could the world be organized around the struggle for a thing so lonely and oppressive in the having of it?”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”
― Lord Byron

“He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement