Matt Bruno

“He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“we're taught to think of ourselves as flawed, inadequate, incomplete. Different in some way that is repugnant, that is unacceptable. We're taught that if we don't hide that difference away, we're going to be alone. Unloved. And so we learn to cover ourselves up, with products, labels, masks of one kind or another.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden