Jared Thomson

“If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
― Voltaire, Candide