Jennifer Becker

“When you feel empty, you have to open up your heart and let the wind sweep through it.”
― Peter Sís, The Conference of the Birds

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded—and how pitiful that was.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending