Julie

“De toutes les passions, la seule vraiment respectable me paraît être la gourmandise.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“He was a sleaze, a nobody, a former graduate student of English studies.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“You learn anythin’ from all this?” Shadow shrugged. “I don’t know. Most of what I learned on the tree I’ve already forgotten,” he said. “I think I met some people. But I’m not certain of anything anymore. It’s like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“He turned to her and said, “About time,” when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other after sharing in the disappointment of a public service.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah