Erin

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists. The smartest guy in the honors program, Adam Vogel, a child of academics, was planning on getting a Ph.D. and becoming an academic himself. That left a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too try, philosophy too difficult, geology too petroleum-oriented, and math too mathematical - because they weren't musical, artistic, financially motivated, or really all that smart, these people were pursuing university degrees doing something no different from what they'd done in first grade: reading stories. English was what people who didn't know what to major in majored in.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
― Alain de Botton

“But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot