Susana Cheng

“One must make ends meet,” confirmed Audrius matter-of-factly, “or meet one’s end.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“One does not fulfill one’s potential by listening to Scheherazade in a gilded hall, or by reading the Odyssey in one’s den. One does so by setting forth into the vast unknown—just like Marco Polo when he traveled to China, or Columbus when he traveled to America.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like. —Anton Chekhov”
― Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

“I’ll tell you what is convenient,” he said after a moment. “To sleep until noon and have someone bring you your breakfast on a tray. To cancel an appointment at the very last minute. To keep a carriage waiting at the door of one party, so that on a moment’s notice it can whisk you away to another. To sidestep marriage in your youth and put off having children altogether. These are the greatest of conveniences, Anushka—and at one time, I had them all. But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow