Lex Lotito

“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Maybe laughter after someone dies is the way we tell ourselves that they are still alive in some way. Or that we are.”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Profound Novel from the Author of Tuesdays With Morrie