Rosa

“My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado