Cara Carmina

“[T]wo Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly for it all to blow over.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”
― Franz Kafka

“If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"

Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.”
― Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country

“You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”
― Charlie Chaplin