Florance Cobbs

“Lately, though, he'd just been tired in general. Tired of people. Tired of books and TV and the nightly news and songs on the radio he'd heard years before and hadn't liked much in the first place. He was tired of his clothes and tired of his hair and tired of other people's clothes and other people's hair. He was tired of wishing things made sense. He'd gotten to a point where he was pretty sure he'd heard everything anyone had to say on any given subject and so it seemed he spent his days listening to old recordings of things that hadn't seemed fresh the first time he'd heard them.
Maybe he was simply tired of life, of the absolute effort it took to get up every goddamned morning and walk out with into the same fucking day with only slight variations in the weather and food.
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.”
― Dennis Lehane, Mystic River

“لقد قال لها في أحد الأيام شيئا لم تستطع تصوره:إن المبتورين يحسون آلاما وخدرا ودغدغة في أرجلهم التي ماعادوا يمتلكونها. وهذا ماشعرت به هي من دونه.. كانت تشعر بوجوده حيث لم يعد له وجود.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“I have always heard that Italian women are rather fierce.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“The important things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Smoke Jumper