Sofia

“Your Majesty- tugging my ear. Whenever”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“That's because language doesn't work to manipulate people into believing things they don't want to believe; instead, it gives them license to believe ideas they're already open to”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

“But the longer Sadie knew Marx, the more she thought Sam hadn't truly understood the nature of Marx's good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty. It was impossible to know- were persimmons his favorite fruit, or had they just now become his favorite fruit because they were growing in his own backyard?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I slipped back in, ghostlike, to save the ice cream sandwich in front of the corpse of the son I could not. Thirty minutes in the freezer resuscitated the sandwich. Pretty tasty, I thought, picking chocolate chips out of my teeth as the family said its last goodbyes. I wondered if, in my brief time as a physician, I had made more moral slides than strides.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air