Beatriz

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.”
― Joanna Hoffman

“To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I liked the idea of living in a city — any city, especially a strange one — liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History