Aurora

“you’d better be something, and something really special, to justify all you’ve been given, and that can feel terrifying.”
― Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

“Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.”
― Harlan Coben, Six Years

“Does this pose a moral dilemma for you? Do you find it atrocious?” he asks. “Not at all. The human being is complex and I find the vile acts, contradictions, and sublimities characteristic of our condition astonishing. Our existence would be an exasperating shade of gray if we were all flawless.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song”
― Harlan Coben, Six Years