Philip

“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with. You may not live on the island, but you can’t tell me it’s not your home. Your bubble, Mr. Baker. It’s been popped. Why would you allow it to grow around you again?”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“You have to serve those who need to be served, not just the ones who make you feel good about yourself.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“But when someone's gone and you're the primary keeper of his memory -letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn't it?”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“Because giving increases your sense of self-worth and receiving diminishes it—ladling soup at the Salvation Army evokes a very different feeling from having it ladled into your bowl—there is good reason to expect people will overestimate the amount of support they give and underestimate the amount they receive”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City