Mel

“If she were likened to the heart of the house, one could say exactly the same about her as one does about healthy hearts in general, that whoever is lucky enough to have such a heart is quite unaware of having a heart at all.”
― Halldór Laxness, The Fish Can Sing

“The skills I gave him were not skills he needed after all. I wish I nudged him in a direction where his mind could have been as supple as it was, where he wouldn’t have had to harness himself to a dull way of thinking. I felt I had taken someone who once knew how to draw a dog and turned him into someone who instead knew only how to draw shapes.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“The world is so big and life could be fragile…but not so big that one person can’t do something to change it.”
― Jacinda Ardern, A Different Kind of Power

“I think our own standard had its origins in my grandfather's conviction that the money which people consider theirs by right was unlawfully accumulated, or counterfeit, if it exceeded the average income of a working man.”
― Halldór Laxness, The Fish Can Sing