Janene

“Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one you attack.”
― Irvine Welsh, The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins

“The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“But behaviour does not merely enact whatever has already been thought through and decided. It has its own sources, and is my behaviour, quite independently, just as my thoughts are my thoughts, and my decisions my decisions.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“As Aristocleia raised her cup to toast Xanthippus, her gown slipped from her shoulders, exquisite as Aphrodite’s, and flowed like the water that slid over her naked breasts when she allowed him to watch her bathe. It was wonderful to possess a gem of a woman. It made a man feel beautiful and godlike himself, briefly.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece