Jacqualine

“Some people are born fucked up. It’s in their DNA. It’s their goal in life to fuck up everyone else along with them. You know what they say. Misery by any other name is still a bitch.”
― Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge

“Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil’s hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac’s resignation seemed to paralyze him, and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age.  She’d now taken to informing people that she was four- and-a-half-and-three-quarters. She didn't seem to grasp the concept of almost-five.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

“That’s how she loved people—​by feeding them.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life