Maaian

“He had never told her how the school kitchen had been like the land of giants...his mother was in charge of bringing the world down to scale”
― סלסט נג

“If God meant for us to carry baggage around, he would have made our skin have little pouches like kangaroos. Or maybe he would have just made it so that each and every one of us were born with huge- ass shoulders to carry the load. Clearly, we weren’t made to carry the weight of the world, kinda makes you wonder why we do it anyway, huh?”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

“Gems were a way of showing your status, and his wife had always been a perfect model for everything he wanted to display.”
― Victoria Hislop, The Thread

“We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest