Rolande Magnant

“The room does feel strange, oppressive even, with the TV off. In fact, Katie can’t remember ever being in this room without it on. It’s as if they’re missing their fifth sibling, the one who never shuts up and demands all the attention.”
― Lisa Genova, Inside the O'Briens

“With no light and no mirror, I cannot tell a thing except the dress is dark. Dark as my mood. Dark as my future.”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

“I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Above all Siddartha learned from the river how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgments, without opinions.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha