Courtney

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Words compress impressions into facts cold as frozen quarters. One single word-like EMERGENCY, or love- can revise a whole night. A whole life.”
― Alena Graedon

“It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. In a week from now, she would have no choices.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sleeper and the Spindle

“He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you. There are some men who have never been kissed like that. There are some men who discover, after Arthur Less, that they never will be again.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less