Girish Gowda

“She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.”
― Richard Ford, Canada

“If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and love, with pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it's probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we're here for is to learn how to do it. I know that sounds a little pious.”
― David Foster Wallace

“You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“He understood people a little too well, and the knowledge made him nervous.”
― Dennis Lehane, Mystic River