Monika

“Humiliation is the sport of the petty”
― Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War

“...so Beatrice, who was tired of people feeling free to interrogate on her determination to live free of a husband, bit her lip and did not answer.”
― Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

“there's a shitload of insufferable know-it-all hipsters who will work for next to nothing for the privilege of condescending to customers about their musical knowledge.”
― Christopher Moore, Secondhand Souls