Colette Guerin

“Keep passing the open windows.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth