Tommy Roberts

“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Opportunity did not knock until I built the door.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“In an age when we are ever more targeted and profiled and mined for information, reading a book allows you to be, for so long as the covers hold you, truly quiet and undisturbed.”
― Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future,’33 noted the writer Kahlil Gibran, ‘but from wanting to control it.”
― Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?: Essays on Modern Life