Cris Crespo

“...when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what's right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart."
Only here's what I really, really want someone to explain to me. What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted--? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight toward a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“I'd feel a whole lot better knowing a person was falling in love with me because of me and not because of hypnosis or snug purple gowns.”
― Cat Winters, The Cure for Dreaming

“My duty not to remain passive in a world which seems to be moving toward self-chosen catastrophe.”
― Erich Fromm, Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud

“...I’d felt drowned and extinguished by vastness—not just the predictable vastness of time, and space, but the impassable distances between people even when they were within arm’s reach of each other, and with a swell of vertigo I thought of all the places I’d been and all the places I hadn’t, a world lost and vast and unknowable, dingy maze of cities and alleyways, far-drifting ash and hostile immensities, connections missed, things lost and never found…”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch