Pepperoni

“It’s hard to care about people. Exhausting, in fact, because empathy is a complicated thing. It requires us to accept that everyone else’s lives are also going on the whole time. We have no pause button for when everything gets too much for us to deal with, but then neither does anyone else.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“A life without books is a life not lived.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Joy sometimes has a strange effect: it can oppress us almost as much as sorrow.”
― Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo