Lucy Morrison

“It’s all circling around the same problem of personal liberties,” Walter said. “People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don’t have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can’t afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time.”
― Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey