Addie

“On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“This couple, so involved with babies, had never reproduced themselves, though they could have. This was an interesting comment on the whole idea of reproduction.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night