Kyle

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live... I think there are many among you who would be glad to release the world from captivity... This is what prevents them: They're unable to find the bars of the cage.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“Alicia's eyes? Brown. Gabrielle's? Gabrielle I don't remember. Eye color it's not really that important green blue brown it's more the way the gaze affects you. Lebrun for example his eyes they bored into you when he turned your way when he trained them on you but the thing is when people think they're seeing into you at the same time they're leaving themselves open that's what I discovered just when they think they're learning everything there is to know about you is the time when their own souls are the most revealed it's a two-way street.”
― Thomas Rayfiel, In Pinelight