Xavier

“Neither creation nor sacrifice could lead a person to heaven.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“The best way to feel like you really belong to a group is to invent another group to hate. Which is why today was fantastic, from an advertising standpoint.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I believe you,’ and she smiles. She stretches. She touches his face, and makes it splendid.”
― Nathan Hill, Wellness

“People think that socialism is sustained by force—the forcible expropriation of property—but I wish they would just admit that capitalism is also sustained by exactly the same force in the opposite direction, the forcible protection of existing property arrangements.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You