Bonnie Kounter

“She touched it delicately with her fingertips in several places, not in any effort to smooth it but rather in the furtive, half-conscious way that he himself had sometimes touched his pimples at sixteen, just to make sure the horrible things were still there.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“Edward had once felt that a vineyard rolling up a mountainside over which the sun was setting was the most glorious thing he’d ever seen, but now that memory paled in comparison to the transcendent garden of life bursting forth down below.”
― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

“We must go back to the firm discipline and simplicity of the one-room schoolhouse to find a better education for our children.”
― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

“Celuj w księżyc, bo nawet jeśli nie trafisz, będziesz między gwiazdami.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer