Ada Zhang > Quotes

“She'd been foolish to think she could have solitude and at the same time avoid loneliness....In front of someone else, one comes alive.”
― Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others

“He couldn't understand what it was like to feel this deeply for strangers, but he supposed this was a way to stay afloat on top of loneliness, buoyed by the sorrows of others.”
― Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others

“We get so few chances in life to be of real use to another person, to make their life more bearable, and meanwhile the chances to do harm are everywhere and often discreet; you don't fully realize what you've done until it's over.”
― Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others

“Part of loving someone is accepting what you don't know, and what you do know.”
― Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others

“Everyone should do something like that when they're young, when the consequences for things are small.”
― Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others