Chelsea

“What I mean is, if you're absolutely off your rocker, but don't find it convenient to be scooped into the luny-bin, you simply explain that, when you said you were a teapot, it was just your Artistic Temperament, and they apologize and go away. So I stood by to hear just how the A.T. had affected Clarence, the Cat's Friend, ready for anything.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

“There is a truth that everyone knows but you. Each of us has it; no one is immune. Not a secret, not a scandal, but something simple and obvious to everyone else. It can be as simple as losing weight, or as difficult as leaving a husband. How awful, to sense that everybody knows the thing that would change your life, and yet no one is friend enough to tell you! You are left to guess, all by yourself. Until that moment comes when it reveals itself to you, and of course this revelation always comes a moment too late.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

“When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.”
― Lori Lansens, The Mountain Story

“She knew why the Colonel had hated talking about the old days. Because the moment you looked back, and began to make your tally, you were done for.”
― Philipp Meyer, The Son