“But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—”
― Lanark
― Lanark
“There will always be someone who can't see your worth.
Don't let it be you”
― The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
Don't let it be you”
― The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
“If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I'm with you, and if I find the courage to speak my truth to you one day, remind me to light a candle in thanksgiving at every altar in Rome.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
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