Chaloe

“My life is a reading list.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.”
― Pam Muñoz Ryan

“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front