Sharla

“A literary work ... is, during the time one reads it, a friend with whom one has chosen to spend one's time. The question now is, what does this friendship do to my mind? What does this new friend ask me to notice, to desire, to care about? How does he or she invite me to view my fellow human beings?”
― Wayne Booth

“If sex isn't worth of its own moral category, then nor is sexual harassment or rape. If we accept that sex is merely a service that can be freely bought and sold, then we have no arguments left to make against the incels who want to 'redistribute' it or the army officials who want to offer their troops 'convenient arrangements'.”
― Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

“I was so used to thinking about happiness as deferred satisfaction that I had neglected to think about the purpose and import of what happens now. I had failed to engage with the question of happiness as a present reality and, in the process, had just gotten really busy.”
― O.P. Fr. Gregory Pine, Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly

“When I've really been in love with someone, it's not because they looked a certain way or liked a certain TV show or a certain cuisine. It's more because when I watched a certain TV show or ate a certain cuisine with them, it was the most fun thing ever.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance