Gregory

“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else.”
― Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone

“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage