Olivia

“We must try, all of us, a lot of the time, our best, and we must keep trying. We do not understand anything but we should try our best to understand each other.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide which is worse, coming up against the limitations of their souls or the limitations of my love.”
― Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

“It was a familiar feeling, to be hurrying someplace without really knowing what is going on. When I was a child, this happened all the time, because when you are a child, nothing is your business, and you are constantly being yanked one place or another with no satisfying explanation provided by the adults doing the yanking, and so you soon get used to being in a constant state of bewilderment.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“In the classical music field, it’s still more permissible for women to be mediocre than it is for them to be fat.”
― Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty