Kristy

“The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Echo

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre