Olga

“By the end, Arthur Less is in tears, sobbing in his seat, and he thinks he has been sobbing quietly until the lights come up and the woman seated beside him turns and says, “Honey, I don’t know what happened in your life, but I am so so sorry,” and gives him a lilac-scented embrace. Nothing happened to me, he wants to say to her. Nothing happened to me. I’m just a homosexual at a Broadway show.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“Why, all his virtues are derived from his station only; because he is rich, he is called generous; because he is powerful, brave”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man

“Boredom is the mind’s scar tissue.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less