Patti Short

“Each of us plunges through our own existence, punching me-shaped holes through days, through weeks, through conversations. We're none of us one thing or the other; we're legion. There's a different Yaz inside your skull for everyday of your life. We deceive others. We deceive ourselves. We keep secrets that even we don't know and hold beliefs we don't understand. And in that state of profound, fundamental, primal ignorance, we still think we can sculpt the clay of our own selves. We think we know what to cut away, that we understand the consequences of excising greed.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars

“A smile is the universal welcome.”
― Max Eastman, The Sense of Humor

“People tried to make sense of tragedy, when the point of tragedy was that it was senseless. Bad things didn't happen for a greater reason. They just happened.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“We might live in a multiverse of infinite wonder, but we are what we are, and can only care about what falls into our own orbit.”
― Mark Lawrence, One Word Kill