Christopher Cyr

“It’s all a cesspool, man. Doesn’t matter if you’re on the bottom or the top. You’re still swimming in shit.”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Ice

“Reflect, then,” he said, “that your ancestors set up those trophies, not that you may gaze at them in wonder, but that you may also imitate the virtues of the men who set them up.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic

“It wasn’t enough. He needed a regimen that meant something. Not just an empty routine. He needed to work, and get somewhere. If he didn’t do it fast, he was going to end up parked on a barstool until his funeral.”
― James Kestrel, Five Decembers

“She remembered a feeling she could barely articulate, that her mother, never happy, grew even more bitter with success. Years later, she’d suspect the reason was because the fame and the money robbed her mother of excuses for her unhappiness. Her mother, brilliant at analyzing the problems of strangers, never had a clue how to diagnose herself. So she spent her life in search of solutions to problems that were born, raised, lived, and died within the boundaries of her own marrow.”
― Dennis Lehane, Since We Fell