Vanessa

“And what is love, in the end?” Alabaster said. “Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else’s journey through life?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“but while we may be born into families, it doesn’t necessarily mean we belong to them.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“The recent rise in many countries of the toxic nationalism that the architects of the United Nations hoped would be banished after the horrors of the Second World War is a reflection of this, as is the trend to greater theological conservatism in many places, and the willingness of many to defer complicated choices back to the imagined teachings of ancient gods.”
― James Suzman, Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

“in times of more danger. . . . Years subdue the ardor of passion but in lieu thereof friendship and affection deep-rooted subsists which defies the ravages of time, and whilst the vital flame exists.”
― David McCullough, John Adams