JP Higgins

“had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“She loved him,” Yale said instead of contradicting her, instead of saying it was okay if she hadn’t liked it at all. “Even if she shouldn’t have. I think it was one of those things where you can’t let go of how you first saw the person.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“Tenderness and absolute trust and communication and truth: these things matter more and more as one grows older.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea

“Her dreams are spare, lack the propulsion of a mission, her ambition is without traction.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao