Joanna

“How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends to matters outside."

A queen tends to both, I wanted to say, but did not. She would not understand.”
― Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth

“I tried to make sense of things. Now that I think about it, I have always tried. It could be my epitaph. LEO GURSKY: HE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?”
― Emily Horner, A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend