Season Flores > Season's Quotes

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.”
― Herman Koch, The Dinner

“I can scroll and worry indoors, or I can step outside and remember how it feels to be part of something larger, something timeless, a world that reaches beyond me and includes me, too.”
― Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

“In different ways, women that I was blessed to be close to have influenced how I've moved through the world [for] as long as I can remember. And certainly, when I think about intentionalist.”
― Laura Clise

“Books were a safer bet than people: You usually knew from the start whether you were being set up for a traumatic or happy ending”
― Kit Meredith, An Extraordinary Passion

“It's kind of tragic, I thought, how we can never completely escape our childhoods.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“No, we never dated. He’s not an ex-boyfriend. He’s an ex-almost. Maybe that’s all we’d ever be—an incomplete sentence or a book that someone put down halfway through and never picked back up. Finished without an ending.”
― Alissa DeRogatis, Call It What You Want