Joey LeBert

“There’s an inherent pleasure in being unseen.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“It’s such an odd thing, the way you can know someone so perfectly through what they read.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“It’s possible to both know and not know something.’ ”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel