Julia Hillman

“Of course, you’re not going to come straight out and tell the person you love them. They wouldn’t understand. So, to disguise the fact that you’re already hostage to them, you make conversation.”
― Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

“The fabulous and the fantastic—the wildly outlandish lies—were typically questioned by the intellect yet wholly absorbed by the heart. Almost always, mythomaniacs lied to reinforce fragile egos, decorating their lives with unearned grandeur.”
― Tim O'Brien, America Fantastica

“There are few things more validating than to see someone who is like you and love them instead of hate them.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise

“at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air