Jon Koebrick

“All passion is childish. It's banal and naive. It's nothing we learn; it's instinctive, and so it overwhelms us. Overturns us. It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to earth, but passion inhabits the universe.
That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands we risk. Our dignity. The puzzlement of others and their condescending, shaking heads”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“My dad used to say the best place to look for sympathy was somewhere between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― Mark Spragg, The Fruit of Stone

“When a marriage works, it is in no small part because a woman and a man have come to recognize in precise measure when enough has been said.”
― Laurence Shames, Sunburn