David

“You shouldn't think you're not supposed to be happy, Paul. You understand that? You shouldn't get used to not being happy just because you can't make everything fit down right. Everything doesn't fit down right. You have to let some things go finally.”
― Richard Ford, Independence Day

“If you can find a way of helping people, you'll live off the interest.”
― J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun

“The light grew stronger, gushing up against the dark sap-hire of the transparent night. The light grew stronger, whiter, then over it hovered a flush of rose. A flush of rose, and then yellow, pale, new-created yellow, the whole quivering and poising momentarily over the fountain on the sky’s rim. The rose hovered and quivered, burned, fused to flame, to a transient red, while the yellow urged out in great waves, thrown from the ever-increasing fountain, great waves of yellow flinging into the sky, scattering its spray over the darkness, which became bluer and bluer, paler, till soon it would itself be a radiance, which had been darkness. The sun was coming.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

“Nina wondered, for a moment, how one became like that. What did it take to say exactly what you meant, to feel comfortable in the middle of causing discomfort, to not feel so intrinsically as to be as vital to yourself as your blood that it was your responsibility to make things smooth and pleasant for everyone?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising