Kate Ly Johnston

“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral

“How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this portrait will remain always young.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Oh! What an enigma is man!" exclaimed the Duke. "Yes, my friend," said Curval. "That is why a certain very intelligent gentleman once said it was better to fuck him than to understand him.”
― Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

“It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green