Jonathan Grant

“New friends,” he said, as if it were an important point, “can often have a better time together than old friends.” With”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“I know what it is! We’ve arrived at the West Coast! We’re all strangers again! Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of all. The funeral procession! The one everybody’s in, this hyped-up, fuck-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“There is always a swarm of enchanters in attendance upon us that change and alter everything with us, and turn things as they please, and according as they are disposed to aid or destroy us.”
― Cervantes, Don Quixote

“When night comes, the gods again taunt us with a radiant sunset. "Nothing should be this beautiful," I quietly say to Chou. "The gods are playing tricks on us. How could they be so cruel and still make the sky so lovely?". My words tug at my heart. It is unfair of the gods to show us beauty when I am in so much pain and anguish. "I want to destroy all the beautiful things.”
― Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers