claudia

“You've got the other too. Listen to me! You wouldn't even be wondering if you didn't have it. Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now—look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do it—not your mother.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Harold sighs. “Jude,” he says, “there’s not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don’t get to a certain age and it stops.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“There has to be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451