D B

“Last year I abstained
this year I devour

without guilt
which is also an art”
― Margaret Atwood, You are Happy

“All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you—the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“I've enough pride never to let myself love a man who does not love me.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Levin had long before made the observation that when one is uncomfortable with people from their being excessively amenable and meek, one is apt very soon after to find things intolerable from their touchiness and irritability.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina