“This is how everything should end: with the forgotten remembered, the wounded healed, and the sinners forgiven.”
― Jenny Hollowell

“Over the course of your life you are actually hundreds of different people. You are a different person at the coffee shop than you are at the bar, and a different person for the dry cleaner than you are for your boyfriend, and a different person at work than you are on vacation. You are nobody in particular. But once somebody finds you and loves you, you have to keep being the person that they love. You want thier love. You need to keep getting it even if it means pretending...but no one loved her and so she could keep changing.”
― Jenny Hollowell, Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell

“It's all make believe, isn't it?”
― Marilyn Monroe

“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”
― Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust