Robin

“We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. We can’t escape who we are.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“That was what the books did—they turned off your thinking for you, put their thoughts in your head so you wouldn't have your own.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls