Jennifer Pope

“Life wasn’t about avoiding suffering.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“You remember how Mom had that embroidered pillow? When she got upset, she’d shout into it and no one would hear her. That’s Facebook.”
― Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno

“I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn’t really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Hipsterdom's a tightrope strung across the canyon of douche-baggery. He clung by a finger.”
― Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno