Allison

“You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“I felt like I’d seen this scene, many years before. A broad swatch of lawn, twin girls slurping up orange juice, long-tailed birds flying off who knows where, netless tennis courts, the sea beyond . . . But it was an illusion. It was vivid enough, an intense sense of the real, but an illusion nonetheless. I’d never been to this hospital in my life.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Suddenly in the bustle of the terminal, my destination, my name, my address will no longer be there in my brain. But this never lasts long: five or ten seconds at most.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you— if only temporarily.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook