Donna Dimassa

“We’ll meet you on some corner. I’ll be the man smoking two cigarettes.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Then I understood I would never marry him. It's funny how one thing can make you realize something like that. One can be ready to give up the children one always wanted, one can be ready to withstand remarks about one's past, or one's clothes, but then—a tiny remark and the soul deflates and says: Oh.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it’s the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“How on Earth did you do that with the same 24 hours a day that everyone else gets?”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution