Alex

“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“I wait for the significance of this to dawn. Moss grows around my feet. Glaciers form and melt.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“In shame, I sipped my tea and nibbled at my biscuit. I had never had tea with milk in it before or a biscuit of such rocklike cheerlessness. It tasted like something you would give a budgie to strengthen its beak.”
― Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe