Kira

“It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“The word love was required to cover such a range of emotions that it almost meant nothing at all. Since the love we distill for each beloved conforms to such a specific, rarefied recipe, with varying soupcons of resentment, pity, or lust, and sometimes even pinches of dislike, you really needed as many different words for the feeling as there were people whom you cared for in your life.”
― Lionel Shriver

“Should what you get up to fail to comport with who you think you are, something is surely inaccurate (and likely optimistic) about who you think you are.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World

“The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein