Jessica O

“Listening to the man’s story, Jim felt he’d been granted a privilege. This was intimate contact with life, the very thing he had missed during all those years of reading philosophy.”
― Tracy Kidder, Rough Sleepers

“When I try to picture for myself what a happy life might look like, the picture hasn't changed very much since I was a child - a house with flowers and trees around it, and a river nearby, and a room full of books, and someone there to love me, that's all. Just to make a home there, and to care for my parents when they grow older. Never to move, never to board a plane again, just to live quietly and then be buried in the earth.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“— Everything changes into something else, turns into some version of what it was before.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster

“I'm going to become whatever I was going to become.”
― Elif Batuman, Either/Or