Peter

“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.”
― Johnathan Safran Foer

“And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son

“The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.”
― Elvis Costello

“Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep