Lauren

“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex