Cara Berkovitch

“Then, like magic, it seemed like the universe provided a solution. And I thought—okay, this is how. This will work. There’s hope—light at the end of the tunnel. A silver lining, you know?” Roy shook his head. “Fuck. I was so stupid. I was too proud to realize that there was no way it could ever happen. That there couldn’t be a happy ending for us. It was just a set-up. You see, the universe still had accounts to settle. And Susie and I, we were way overdrawn.”
― J.K. Franko, Tooth for Tooth

“He was a nifty dancer and his charm bowled her over.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“Did you ever realize that all machines are made for some reason?’ He asked Isabelle. ‘They are built to make you laugh, like the mouse here, or to tell the time, like clocks, or to fill you with wonder, like the automaton. Maybe that’s why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn’t able to do what it was mean to do…Maybe it’s the same with people,’ Hugo continued. ‘If you lose your purpose…it’s like you’re broken.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“You should have come the minute you suspected anything. You tell me you would not betray me, and yet your actions challenge your words.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Two