Julia

“Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“You remain the hero of your own story even when you become the villain of someone else's.”
― Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno