Amanda Cornell

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief