Nathan

“All love stories,” Maya’s father had told her many years ago, “end in tragedy.” Maya had shaken her head and said, “God, Dad, that’s grim.” “Yes, but think about it: You either fall out of love, or, if you’re really one of the lucky ones, you live long enough to watch your soul mate die.”
― Harlan Coben, Fool Me Once

“about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you’re twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you don’t know what your small true part is until much later.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength and that they must make their way back into the common enterprise of man for without they do so it cannot go forward and they themselves will wither in bitterness”
― Cormac McCarthy

“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
― George Orwell