Celine

“For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.”
― Patti Smith

“Lonely, ain't it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly