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“So many of the bad things that happen in the world come from people pretending to be something they’re not.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“That's the past, isn't it. You think it's behind you, then one day you walk into a room and it's there waiting for you.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“we are all different expressions of the same vulnerability and need. That’s what binds us together.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“It is for love. You are doing this for love.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“Love is not an accomplishment, yet to lack it still somehow feels like failure.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection

“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

“It’s probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

“It was love that worked miracles; no force on earth was more powerful.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

“I think there’s eternity in every second we’re alive.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

“The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“You can’t come back to something that is gone.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Love is a tree with branches in forever with roots in eternity and a trunk nowhere at all”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Kindness may look for something in return, but that doesn’t make it any less kind.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“What we care for, we will grow to resemble. And what we resemble will hold us, when we are us no longer.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“CONTROL KILLS CONNECTION HEALS”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“I wish you way more than luck.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“There is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“Nowhere is it written that you can’t do it.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“If you don't try, nothing ever changes.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“But what they don’t know is this: As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“A man without words is a man without thought.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden