Pippa Stannard

“If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That’s Always Passed Out on the Couch.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste--one who is all for show and has no resources in herself”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие