Masum Hasan

“To tell a story is inescapably to take a moral stance," wrote the psychologist Jerome Bruner. Every story we tell, of marriage or life involves judgement about the salient facts, the details to amplify, the impression we wish to leave. The techniques that great storytellers use to draw us in are not unlike the ones that intimate partners use with each other to promote fruitful conversation. Both ease the listener into their story by speaking in terms of possibilities rather than certainties. When one partner wants to invite the other to consider his perspective, he signals his belief that he doesn't have sole access to the truth...In doing so he invites curiosity...Trouble couples insist their partner's meanings are unambiguous.”
― Daphne de Marneffe, The Rough Patch: Midlife and the Art of Living Together

“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”
― Andy Bernard

“Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.”
― James Cameron

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down