Claudia

“He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?”
― George Orwell, 1984

“And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

“We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.”
― Miranda July

“Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.”
― Bob Dylan