Erika Compliment

“Very few old folk are happy, Irina. Most of them are poor, aren’t healthy, and have no family. It’s the most fragile and difficult stage of life, more so than childhood, because it grows worse day by day, and there is no future other than death.”
― Isabel Allende, The Japanese Lover

“But for every adult person you look up to in life there is trailing behind them an invisible chain gang of ghosts, all of which, as a child, you are generously spared from meeting.”
― M.O. Walsh, My Sunshine Away

“Glass had come to view the sea, which he once embraced as synonymous with freedom, as no more than the confining parameters of small ships. He resolved to turn a new direction.”
― Michael Punke, The Revenant

“Nymphomania is a word men invented for women stupid enough to act like men.”
― Dirk Wittenborn, The Stone Girl