Tara Lewis

“He wants to know why my marks aren’t better. Why I don’t speak fluent French. Why I can’t kill a fully grown man with a nutcracker.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“It's precisely the sense that we're different that makes us so banal.”
― Daniel Kehlmann, Ruhm. Ein Roman in neun Geschichten

“This is what happens, when it feels like the weight of the world is crushing right down on you. You fear it’s going to change you forever. And you’re right. It is. It’s going to turn you into something that is both beautiful, and the most indestructible thing on the planet. I am both touched, and amused, by how apt its name is: Hope. “I relate to you,” I say to the Hope Diamond, as I stand there, staring at it. “I get what you are saying. You are the sparkliest metaphor I have ever seen.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be Famous

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun