Tara

“Naw, it’s real. Ah couldn’t stand it if he wuz tuh quit me. Don’t know whut Ah’d do. He kin take most any lil thing and make summertime out of it when times is dull. Then we lives offa dat happiness he made till some mo’ happiness come along.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“How did you know what's been killing me? Slowly, for years, driving me to hate people when I don't want to hate.... Have you felt it, too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you—except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them, nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. You mean, you want to hear? You want to know what I do and why I do it, you want to know what I think? It's not boring to you? It's important?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of his loneliness?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love