Sara

“Why does no one tell you that work, not love, is the real salvation?

Because if we told young people how life really was, they would beat us with their fists and ask why we brought them into this world.

[Édouard Manet]”
― Maureen Gibbon, The Lost Notebook of Édouard Manet

“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.”
― Catherine Breillat, Romance

“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County