Paul

“Then, Valentine’s Day came. There was a dance, and balloons and flowers and cheaply made rings and all sorts of lame teddy bears and stuffed animals, as if teenagers can be wooed with the same shit as five-year-olds. It was the Dietzes’ most hated holiday of the year, too, because it dealt with the consumerization of something sacred. Mom and Dad had agreed never to buy each other anything on the day. It was a false, Hallmark holiday. A sham. A moneymaking sideshow for insecure couples who didn’t have true love. I agreed with this, for the most part.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Sometimes it is in the empty, blank places that we find truth staring back at us.”
― Sara Poole, Poison

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.”
― Takayuki Yamaguchi, Shigurui 11