“Why is life so complicated….?' I asked.
'To keep us from being bored,' he said.”
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1933) American children's writer
Source: Dangerously Alice
“I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.”
— Janet Fitch, book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
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