Tim

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“People are always ruining things for you.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night