Runita

“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“George Orwell was wrong, she thinks. In the future, it won’t be the state that keeps tabs on everyone by extensive use of surveillance; it will be the people. They’ll do the state’s work for it by constantly uploading their locations, interests, food preferences, restaurant choices, political ideas, and hobbies to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites. We are our own secret police.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Chain

“So he’s a bad guy.”

“Everyone’s bad.”

“No,” Bob said, “they’re not. Most people are okay.”

“Yeah?” A smile of disbelief.

“Yeah. They just, I dunno, make a lotta messes and then they make more messes trying to clean those first messes up and after a while that’s your life.”

She sniffled and chuckled at the same time. “That’s it, uh?”

“That’s it sometimes.”
― Dennis Lehane, The Drop

“And I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train