“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you— if only temporarily.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
“I am practicing being kind over being right.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
“She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know—she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn’t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
Joe Orozco’s 2025 Year in Books
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