Veer

“Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.”
― Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“Life can only be understood backward; the trouble is, it has to be lived forward.”
― Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know

“History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.”
― Penelope Lively, How It All Began