Claudette Blackwall

“What makes men defend their territories with might and violence?”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

“It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“I don’t want my heart to be broken,” they say. Or, “I don’t want to fail.” “I understand,” Susan tells them. “But you have dead people’s goals. Only dead people never get stressed, never get broken hearts, never experience the disappointment that comes with failure.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole