Simona Blat

“You can all supply your own favorite, most nauseating examples of the commodification of love. Mine include the wedding industry, TV ads that feature cute young children or the giving of automobiles as Christmas presents, and the particularly grotesque equation of diamond jewelry with everlasting devotion. The message, in each case, is that if you love somebody you should buy stuff. A related phenomenon is the ongoing transformation, courtesy of Facebook, of the verb 'to like' from a state of mind to an action that you perform with your computer mouse: from a feeling to an assertion of consumer choice. And liking, in general, is commercial culture's substitution for loving.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Farther Away

“We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.”
― Keith Richards, Life

“Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“That was how the tears went down Cherry's face...a teaspoon full of ten years' sorrow.”
― Norman Mailer, An American Dream