Charissa

“It isn't only that he died, or how died; it is what he died believing. And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“The ultimate purpose of Zen," I remembered the röshi telling me, "is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.”
― Pico Iyer, The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto

“There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life