Jean

“The way you wear your hat,
The way you sip your tea,
The mem'ry of all that --
No, no! They can't take that away from me!”
― Ira Gershwin

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.”
― George Gordon Byron, Don Juan