Karen

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
― John Updike

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower