Joel

“A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“When our heart is full of empathy, a strong wish to remove their suffering will arise in us.”
― Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

“Myself, after having not a child but this particular one, I couldn’t see how anyone could claim to love children in the generic any more that anyone could credibly claim to love people in a sufficiently sweeping sense as to embrace Pol Pot, Don Rickles, and an upstairs neighbor who does 2,000 jumping jacks at three in the morning.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Zach is the kind of guy you date in your twenties because he’s beautiful and damaged and you think you can change him. The problem is that when you reach your thirties, you realize he’s not always going to be beautiful, you’re never going to change him, and being with him has already damaged you so profoundly that you can’t even imagine the wreck you’ll be if you remain together even one more day, much less ’til death do you part.”
― Adam Mitzner, Dead Certain