Kenny

“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What? this person is modest enough to love even you? Or stupid enough? Or-or-”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“And never have I felt so deeply
at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”
― Albert Camus

“Memory is the scribe of the soul”
― Aristotle