Joy Carman

“I didn’t plan to love you. And by the time I knew I did, I couldn’t tell you what you deserved to know.” He hesitates, his face shuttered. “I never wanted to hurt you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own. Humans will return to living in caves, to medieval savagery, and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say - it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind