Rob Boone

“Now that you’re an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you’re told that you’re “in your head too much,” a phrase that’s often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Of course, there’s another word for such people: thinkers.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can’t change.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness

“If the individual components of a situation taken one at a time, independently of one another, are bearable, then why should you be overwhelmed by them taken together?”
― Donald Robertson, Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Ancient Tips for Modern Challenges

“We create beautiful and lasting things, build vast civilizations.” “Gorgeous evasions,” he said. “Great escapes.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise