Viola

“All I had to do was swap my memories for theirs, and I could have my family.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day