Maria Sarivan

“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be described as "common decency". I treated somebody well for a little while, or even for a tremendously long time, and that person treated me well in return. Love need not have anything to do with it. (...)
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolosh to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency".”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night