Maartje

“Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist.”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

“Life is messy, everybody makes mistakes because we’re all fucking stupid”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

“She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and exploited.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“I found to my surprise that at the start they'd been nearly as bewildered by me as I by them.

It never occurred to me that my behavior could seem to them anything but awkward and provincial, certainly not that it would appear as enigmatic as it in fact did.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History