Marianne

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut