Risa

“You would be amazed at what you can give up, lose or break and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.”
― Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Why doesn’t this story have a happy ending?” Jeffrey asked. “It seems like there should have been hugs and kittens for everyone, at that point. Everyone likes hugs and kittens.”
― Matthew Storm, Interesting Places

“The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable