Doreen

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Lila

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
― Edith Sitwell