Sam

“Robert C. Winthrop says: “Professed patriotism may be made the cover for a multitude of sins.”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

“The alternative to the concept of life and death is the void’ – stalk waggling between her lips – ‘would it really be better if this world didn’t exist at all? Instead, we live, make art, love, observe, suffer, laugh and are happy. We all exist in a million different ways so that there is no void, and the price we pay for that is death.”
― Benedict Wells, The End of Loneliness

“Inevitably, with memory comes pain.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“people always say that “a joy shared is a joy doubled,” we seem to insist on believing that the opposite is true of sorrow. Perhaps that isn’t actually the case. Two drowning people with lead weights around their ankles may not be each other’s salvation; if they hold hands, they’ll just sink twice as fast. In the end the weight of carrying each other’s broken hearts becomes unbearable.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You