Firdevs

“So I volunteered for the night run, sleeping by day like a vampire to avoid those reasonably happy people who had settled for less than heaven. I'd had the door shut on those soft, sensuous pearly gates one too many times, left to stand sheepishly on my little tarnished cloud as I watched someone else enter paradise with the one I worshipped. The heart can only take so much before it begins to hide in shame at its own foolishness.”
― Bobby Underwood, Night Run

“She would read a book hundreds of times, carrying it with her until the pages were torn and the covers were falling off, then she'd paste the covers to the ceiling where she could stare at them, like remembering a good dream.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“One's ego is the enemy of objectivity.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.”
― Sylvia Plath