Laura

“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
― Jo Godwin

“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“Each day was like the next. And even though we looked forward all week to the weekend, the weekend was always still a disappointment, and then it was Monday again and everything started over, and that was how life was, and there was nothing else. We began to understand what Pierre Anthon meant. We began to understand why grown-ups looked the way they did. And although we'd sworn we'd never become like them, that was exactly what was happening. We weren't even fifteen yet. Thirteen, fourteen, adult. Dead.”
― Janne Teller, Nothing

“Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.”
― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise