Nicola

“With distaste, Harriet reflected upon how life had beaten down the adults she knew, every single grown-up. Something strangled them as they grew older, made them doubt their own powers-laziness? Habit? Their grip slackened; they stopped fighting and resigned themselves to what happened. "That's Life." That's what they all said. "That's Life, Harriet, that's just how it is, you'll see.”
― Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

“Yet (moment by painful moment, breath by painful breath) one got through things.”
― Donna Tartt

“To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.”
― Anne Sexton

“The point of books was to combat loneliness”
― David Lipsky, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace