- “I know what “nothing” means, and keep on playing.” – Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays, pg. 214
- “It’s always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.” William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, pg.77
- “For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best” Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, pg. 154
- “The problem with creating hell is that you have to live there, too.”—Olivia Laing, Everybody, pg. 135
- “We were each of us damaged, perhaps that was enough.” Manual Martin, The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History, pg. 124
- “Some people are attracted to painful places because they hope to resolve their own pain there.” Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, pg. 22
- “For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn’t begin at all.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- “All I wanted was to put myself to sleep in towns I didn’t know.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- “Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of life.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- “You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.” -Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life, pg. 210
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