Alexandra

“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
― Charles Baudelaire, BAUDELAIRE - the Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

“I was supporting him when I needed support. And I was being made to feel responsible for all his problems. It was a microcosm of our entire relationship.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

“There's something tedious about disaster," Miranda said. "Don't you find? I mean, at first it's all dramatic, 'Oh my god, the economy's collapsing, there was a run on my bank so my bank ceased to exist over the weekend and got swallowed up by JPMorgan Chase,' but then that keeps happening, it just keeps collapsing, week after week, and at a certain point...”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“I wondered how much of the feeling of love is chemicals and cravings and dependency, and how much of the act of love is habit.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love