Sharon

“But he thought he had stayed in love with a girl who was no longer there, like one of those dead stars she’d once told him about, whose light we still see not because we are living in the star’s future but because we are looking at the star’s past.”
― Rosamund Lupton, The Quality of Silence

“I know, I know,” I say. “We are all unique snowflakes. Don’t you think that’s a weird metaphor to use to tell someone they’re special given how quickly snowflakes melt? It’s like, you may be different from everyone else, but it doesn’t matter because in zero time you’ll be gone.”
― Jane Pek, The Verifiers

“Witty repartee is not well serviced by truth.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

“But a bad person who thinks they’re a good one—now, that’s what got him into trouble.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone