Desiree

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi