Claire

“We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Music spilling out of from the eyes in place of tears, music spilling from the throat in place of words, music falling from his fingertips in place of caresses, music exchanged between them instead of love, yearning of five lines, the five lines of their thoughts , their reveries, their emotions, their unknown self, their giant self, their shadow.”
― Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice

“Because he was so critical, so severe, so suspicious of her, she became secretive and lying. She would never say what she really thought. She was afraid of him.”
― Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice

“Because happiness was temporal, individual, in exceptional circumstances twofold, on extremely rare occasions tripartite, and never collective, civic.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, In Praise of the Stepmother