Julia

“I know I shouldn’t compromise. I can look after myself, of course I can. But sometimes I just wish I didn’t have to.”
― Clare Pooley

“My life, I realized, had gone wrong. Very, very wrong. I wasn’t supposed to live like this. No one was supposed to live like this. The problem was that I simply didn’t know how to make it right.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Remember the impossible eventful ness of time, transformation and emotion packed like gunpowder into the barrel. Remember the dilation and diffusion, the years within days. Theirs were endless; lives flowers and died between waking and noon.”
― Susan Choi, Trust Exercise

“The boredom you speak of,” Alabaster said. “It is what most of us call happiness.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow