Annie Hetrick

“This charm we find in other people is all in the mind; it's only love which makes the loved one appear so wonderful.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

“When that grew boring, she scrolled Twitter, which was like being bathed in the dirty water of other people's thoughts. On Instagram, she was in a deep, deep ad loop.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“The personality of a man always poses the biggest obstacle to his own education, thought Charlie. He’s either too proud, too stubborn, or too timid to submit to the process of discovery. Many of life’s lessons come through trial or tribulation, and the cost of those lessons shouldn’t be taken lightly. But at least half of what a man hasn’t learned in his lifetime he could have learned with ease. This is one of the insights that comes with age—when one understands the nature of discovery but no longer has the time or energy to submit to its splendors. Thus, we are doomed to end our days in an ignorance largely of our own making.”
― Amor Towles, Table for Two

“To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones