Simona

“He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger issues, and once you'd learned them that was it, the way ahead opened up and thereafter life was simple and straightforward. What a joke. The older he got, the more complicated and obscure everything became. ”
― Mary Lawson

“It's like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it starts being you.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“At one time there was a social contract that if you played by the rules (went to school, got a job, and worked hard) everything would be fine,” he told readers. “That’s no longer true today. You can do everything right, just the way society wants you to do it, and still end up broke, alone, and homeless.”
― Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century

“When you get old, gravity pulls the corners of your mouth down, the road to a smile grows longer.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends