Julio

“-everyone has a story or two about that hard-earned lesson of giving more than is asked.”
― Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude

“I don't think truth ever tastes good to anyone's palate.”
― Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude

“There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.”
― Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

“Hardships in lives, Moran was raised to believe, are like unpleasant weather, which one endures because bad weather will break as inevitably as bad luck will run its course. Hope is the sunshine after the storm, the spring thawing after the bitter winter; the goddess of fate, capricious as she is, has nevertheless an impressionable mind, as any young female does, who would smile at those who have perseverance.”
― Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude