Xiu Jing

“That maybe even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open.”
― Donna Tartt

“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed