Fabian Peavy

“losing”
― Daniel Quinn, The Story of B: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“This was still the era - it would end later in that famous decade - when to be young was a social encumbrance, a mark of irrelevance, a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.”
― Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

“only a few handfuls of students now enter Yale with an authentic passion for reading. You cannot teach someone to love great poetry if they come to you without such love. How can you teach solitude? Real reading is a lonely activity and does not teach anyone to become a better citizen.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“Maybe we can politely ignore each other forever? I think that's the mature thing to do.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo