Julia

“The choice is not between what is and what was, but between what is and what will be, which, often enough, is nothing.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

“Hatred is a poison served in three cups. The first is when people despise those they desire—because they want to have them in their possession. It’s all out of hubris! The second is when people loathe those they do not understand. It’s all out of fear! Then there is the third kind—when people hate those they have hurt.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“Regret is so much harder to live with than failure,”
― Robert Dugoni, The World Played Chess

“Abdul’s father had developed an irritating habit of talking about the future as if it were a bus: “It’s moving past and you think you’re going to miss it but then you say, wait, maybe I won’t miss it—I just have to run faster than I’ve ever run before. Only now we’re all tired and damaged, so how fast can we really run? You have to try to catch it, even when you know you’re not going to catch it, when maybe it’s better just to let it go —”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity