Darina

“He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

“What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?”
― Mary McCarthy, Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975

“All the misfits of the world--the too fat and too lean, the too tall and the too short, the jerk, the drip, the half-wit and the spastic, the harelip and the gimp. All the broken, the doomed, the drunk and the disillusioned--herding together for a little human warmth, where a one-room kitchenette is an apartment and the naked electric bulb hangs suspended from the ceiling like an exposed nerve”
― Lawrence Lipton, The Holy Barbarians

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement