Renee

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“It was the knowledge that I was surrounded by adluts with lives that I could never imagine living. It was the humming noise inside me that told me to do something and found nothing to do that meant anything, the bit of me that was like a fly smashing itself again and again on a windowpane. ~Cole St Clair”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders