Jillian

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“What fresh hell is this?”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our error, and that everything the more we want it the more difficult the having it seems to be.”
― Alfred Hayes, In Love

“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor