Kate Ly Johnston

“To start with, look at all the books.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“I’m unable to think up a situation in which life would not be suffering, that we’re all created in order to suffer, and that we all know it and keep thinking up ways of deceiving ourselves.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“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