Sarah

“...Just be advised, boys,' she said, 'you'll want to watch your step, 'cause what I am is, is like a small-diameter pearl of the Orient rolling around on the floor of late capitalism-- lowlifes of all income levels may step on me now and then but if they do it'll be them who slip and fall and on a good day break their ass, while the ol' pearl herself just goes a-rollin' on.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

“They're in love. Fuck the war.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

“But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.”
― Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked

“He would never have dared to call this thing he felt for Mihrimah love, and yet when it was uttered, unveiled, by someone else, he carefully picked up the word and hugged it to his chest, not willing to let go.”
― Elif Shafak, The Architect's Apprentice