Shawn

“Once everyone who felt the need to run had fled, the Albany resort reminded me of New Orleans a week after Hurricane Katrina.”
― Michael Lewis, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

“I’ve been driving around in silence like a serial killer because every song that comes on feels like a bad omen, either too sad or too optimistic.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“Enraged, she marched up to the Orchid penthouse and confronted him. “ ‘It’s not possible,’ he said. ‘I thought you had at least a million shares.’ ” She had less than a quarter of that. “Sam said to me, ‘I never intended for that to happen to you,’ and I said to him, ‘It does not matter what you intended!”
― Michael Lewis, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

“ ‘Zweisamkeit’ is the feeling of being alone even when you’re with other people.” Simon turned to look in his husband’s eyes. “Before I met you, I felt this constantly. I felt it with my family, my friends, and every boyfriend I ever had. I felt it so often that I thought this was the nature of living. To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow