Charlotte Guzman

“Oscar Wilde said that the pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Truth, you see, is in the eye of the beholder.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“...the capital city had grown in alarming fashion: cardboard walls, tin roofs, people in rags clearly visible along the road from the airport. Since this made a very bad impression on visitors, for a long time the solution was to put up walls to hide them. As one politician said, 'Where there is poverty, hide it.”
― Isabel Allende, My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

“Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.”
― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land

“It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket