Vivian Stuart

“You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“He pushed her in. And then he pulled her out. All her life, Lydia would remember one thing. All his life, Nath would remember another.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“Is it better to speak or die?”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.”
― Steve Almond