Erin Standley

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence. ”
― Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man