Time Quote by Jennifer Finney Boylan

““There are times when I think it's impossible to know another soul. I don't know, maybe we're lucky that way. If we knew what really went on inside other people's private hearts it would make our eyeballs bleed.””

Jennifer Finney Boylan

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