Jocelyn

“[I]t is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“I feel a pain in the pit of my stomach at the thought he's about to tell me to be realistic. I don't want to be realistic, I think. I want to hope.”
― Richard Roper, This Disaster Loves You

“I will be waiting here, at sunset, every night for a week.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“[I]t was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easy.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses