Kara

“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“God damn it, there are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything