Julia

“I haven't said anything because sometimes I am just so happy being with you that I don't want to spoil it" he said. " And also because I want to have something to say first, before I say anything.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Happiness was frail and flimsy: a petal, a whisper. Hardship was constant. It was muscular and loud. Only fools forgot this vital fact, her face explained. Only fools failed to let it guide their every waking thought and deed.”
― Xenobe Purvis, The Hounding

“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“I always think one should lie to policemen, it is so very good for the soul, and indeed - good for policemen!”
― Terry Pratchett, Dodger