Julia B.

“You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they're supposed to be.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“Anxiety, her therapist had told her many times, never killed anyone. It felt like death, but it was an illusion. A terrible illusion that inhabited your body and tried to make it its puppet. It told you nothing mattered because everything was made of fear.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall

“I am sitting at my kitchen table waiting for my lover to arrive with lettuce and tomatoes and rum and sherry wine and a big floury loaf of bread in the fading sunlight. Coffee is percolating gently, and my mood is mellow. I have been very happy lately, just wallowing in it selfishly, knowing it will not last very long, which is all the more reason to enjoy it now. I suppose life always ends badly for almost everybody. We must have long fingers and catch at whatever we can while it is passing near us.”
― Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

“Who has not been, or is not to be mad in some lonely hour of life? Who is quite safe from the trembling of the balance?”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret