Claire

“I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge?”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: -

(1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities
(2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals;
(3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die?”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor