Rebecca

“This is when I learned that nice people sometimes felt they had to pretend to be mean and awful.”
― Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
― Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

“Maybe. But in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.’ Like falling in love. Do the young still fall in love, or is that mechanism obsolete by now, unnecessary, quaint, like steam locomotion? He is out of touch, out of date. Falling in love could have fallen out of fashion and come back again half a dozen times, for all he knows.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“You tried to kill yourself,” she said, rolling her eyes up to heaven and biting her knuckle. “Andrew Hardy was gonna die one way or the other, and one of the choices gave me a daughter in exchange while the other left me with no one.” “I”
― Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl