Maple

“Children hated generously, capriciously.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl's Moving Castle