Robin

“Vera said: “Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?”
So I told her why.
Because if I tell the story, I control the version.
Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me.
Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much.
Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.”
― Nora Ephron, Heartburn

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Addison spoke in calligraphy while everyone else talked in scribbles.”
― Shawn Martin, Shadowflesh

“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History