Helen

“Gentlemen are rare. They're like virgins or leprechauns.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“It was going to be about the love my wife and I had for each other. It was going to show how a pair of lovers in a world gone mad could survive by being loyal only to a nation composed of themselves–a nation of two.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

“There are different ways to die. There’s jumping off a roof and there’s slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Ever since, I’ve been looking everywhere for parents, in my lovers, in my friends, and it’s all right with me to have nothing of my own — not any plans and not any worries. I like this kind of life, it’s terrible but true. I don’t know why it is, but the moment I wake up something in me feels things are going right.”
― Françoise Sagan, That Mad Ache: A Novel