Benjamin Anastas > Quotes

“It takes a lifetime of practice to betray yourself without showing any effort, to be so dream-locked and absent that you say the reverse of what you mean, over and over again, to do the opposite of what is good for you.”
― Benjamin Anastas, Too Good to be True

“Just when you start to lose yourself in the story,” she said, “he throws in something really juvenile.”
― Benjamin Anastas, Too Good to be True

“I have reached the point in life where I no longer accept false hopes, the palliative care of counterfeit wisdom.”
― Benjamin Anastas, Too Good to Be True: A Memoir