Adan

“Secretly, of course, the pauses in our correspondence were as calculated as our casualness.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Fifty stranded whales are a tangible crisis with a visible solution. There’s camaraderie in the process, a Free Willy fantasy, an image of Flipper in everyone’s mind. There’s nothing romantic about waking up a man on a park bench and making him walk to a shelter.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.”
― james michener

“We’re our own hardest critics and it’s easy to let ourselves down. Sleeping too late. Procrastinating. Cutting corners. More than once I’ve looked back on my high school self and thought: how did I do that? How did I work so hard? Our private insecurities follow us and will always follow us.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories