Evgeniia

“And did you understand her either? Could you have anticipated this situation?" Time has its revenges, but revenges seem so often sour. Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God-a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bamboozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“I don't want this happiness, but blind happiness is better than inhabitable unhappiness.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“It's like when you're a kid, and you want to be an astronaut before accepting it might be impossible even though everyone says nothing's impossible, and they go so far to pinpoint moments from history to make you feel stupid. But you move on anyway. You know your capabilities and circumstances, so you start thinking that maybe being a boxer would be cool even though you're too skinny. No problem, you can bulk up.
But that all changes when you want to write for the newspaper and dream of having your own column, so you start doing that.
And one day when you're writing someone advice on how to be more organized, you think about piloting a ship into space again.
This is how Thomas lives his life, one misfired dream after the other. That journey may stretch for a lifetime, but even if he doesn't discover that spark until he's an old man, Thomas will die with wrinkles he earned and a smile on his face.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“It's a terrible loss whenever someone assumes they have more time than they do.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End