"I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life."
– The Year of Pleasures, Elizabeth Berg (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain."
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

"Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is."
– Herzog, Saul Bellow (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

"She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn’t her parents’ and it wasn’t her friends: It was her own."
– Forever In Blue, Ann Brashares (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)