Queengoldilocks

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“When life seems too cruel, and there seems too little love in it. When you feel you have failed. When you don't know what the point is. When you cannot go on. I want you to draw strength from me then. I want you to remember how much I cherished you, how I lived for you. When the world seems full of giants who dwarf you, when it feels like a struggle just to keep your head up, I want you to remember there is more to live for than mere achievement. It is worth something to be a good man. It cannot be worth nothing to do the right thing.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“He wanted, one day, to be a person who went out of his way to find out what made other people happy.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves: A New York Times Notable Book and Sprawling Irish-American Adult Fiction Novel

“The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven