Ginny

“The Palm Pavilion was a beachfront restaurant famous for its grouper sandwich and live music at sunset. The pretty blue and white building sat on the end of a boardwalk looking out languidly at the Gulf of Mexico and the sugar white sands of Clearwater Beach. It was the perfect sunset spot if you could take the late afternoon heat.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“Once anointed a hero by your fellow man, you lose the right to privacy. You become an object, stripped of some unquantifiable humanity, as if you have won a cosmic lottery and woke one day to find yourself a minor deity. The Patron Saint of Good Luck. It stops mattering what you wanted for yourself. All that matters is the role you played in the lives of others. You are a rare butterfly held roughly at a right angle to the sun.”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“Millions of years of evolution have designed us to live and think as community members. Within a mere two centuries we have become alienated individuals.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The new year arrives, which of course never means as much as you hope unless you happen to sell calendars. One day becomes another, now becomes then. Winter spreads out across the town like a relative with slightly too much self-confidence,”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People