Christy

“He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”
― Mary Oliver

“And it made me nervous, because I'm the kind of person who should be kept away from romance, the way certain people should be kept away from guns or sharp knives.”
― Ken Foster, The Kind I'm Likely To Get: A Collection

“He was a newspaperman,' he said, 'but there's some people who should never leave Savannah.”
― Pete Dexter, The Paperboy