Anna

“In life you have to learn to count the good days. You have to tuck them in your pocket and carry them around with you. So I’m putting today in my pocket and I’m off to bed.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“The moment is so perfect it feels like a memory even as it happens.”
― Lily Sparks, Teen Killers at Large: Teen Killers Club, Book 3

“And yet what precisely is this ‘greatness’? Just where, or in what, does it lie? I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question, but if I were forced to hazard a guess, I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“She could never explain this to her daughter. 'You made me recognize that my heart is in fact a bottomless hole of simultaneous pleasure and despair.' She could never say, 'You gave my life meaning and ruined it at the same time.”
― Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had