Boyd S

“If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother who had grown up in poverty, telling stories, often, of extending a chicken to its fullest capacity, so as soon as a restaurant served his dish, he would promptly cut it in half and ask for a to-go container. Portions are too big anyway, he’d grumble, patting his waistline. He’d only give away his food if the corners were cleanly cut, as he believed a homeless person would just feel worse eating food with ragged bitemarks at the edges – as if, he said, they are dogs, or bacteria. Dignity, he said, lifting his half-lasagna into its box, is no detail.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“Elegance lies not in the clothes we wear, but in the way we wear them.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra