We drank gin fizzes till we forgot how to walk.
- Vivian and Celia in City of girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

There was no focus; there was just a constant search for the vivid. We missed nothing, but we also missed everything.

- Vivian and Celia in City of girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Call me Ishmael Madame Dagadá

L'amour est un oiseau rebelle
Que nul ne peut apprivoiser
Et c'est bien en vain qu'on l'appelle
S'il lui convient de refuser

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colete in Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls

but my heart was a desert landscape filled with mirages and quicksand
- sylvie in jean kwok's searching for sylvie lee

DEANNA

Dolor hic tibi proderit olim.

MICHONE

What does it mean?

DEANNA

Someday this pain will be useful to you.

- Ovid cited in The Walking Dead, S06E08

I held on to the images of their faces, their bodies, their hands, their voices.
- Sylvie in Jean Kwok's Searching for Sylvie

How could I hate him and still wish he were mine?
- Sylvie in Jean Kwok's Searching for Sylvie Lee