Olivia Hursh

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

“I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin