Phoebe

“What makes a romance romantic, the beginning or the end?”
― Laura Lippman, Seasonal Work: Stories

“And though, of course, it grew worse as one's body aged, was it not a sign that this was not the natural order of things, if one's heart sickened at the discomfort and dirt and scarcity, the interminable winters, the stickiness of one's socks, the lifts that never worked, the cold water, the gritty soap, the cigarettes that came to pieces, the food with its strange evil tastes? Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?”
― George Orwell, 1984

“People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Failing to realize that each and every person is living their own unique and highly complex story leads us to make assumptions that suit our own desires.”
― Shane Burcaw, Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse