Shane Yang

“I think people more often kill those they love, than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“His business might be defined as the lending of money exclusively to people who have no pressing need of it.”
― Fred Schwed Jr., Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

“There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures. Nor can any description that I might offer here even approximate what it feels like to lose a real chunk of money that you used to own.”
― Fred Schwed Jr., Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People