Monica

“She gives a kindly shrug. “Well, imagine if we only ever did what we were supposed to, John.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“He remembered thinking, in his opiate-induced delirium, how sad it must be for a body to want something so badly and to be completely denied.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“It’s more like this bag of gravel I’m hauling around every day of the year. If somebody else brings it up, honestly, I’m glad of it. Like just for that minute they can help me drag the gravel.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead