Brandon Lemon

“If you take a trait that by all appearances is a merit—a trait that is praised by pastors and poets, a trait that we have come to admire in our friends and hope to foster in our children—and you give it to some poor soul in abundance, it will almost certainly prove an obstacle to their happiness. Just as someone can be too smart for their own good, there are those who are too patient for their own good, or too hardworking.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“For kindness begins where necessity ends.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“That gulf that divided us is still there, filled with questions and recriminations and guilt, but that's only part of love, part of being human. Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“The guilt lingered, even so. Ghosts were imaginary, but hauntings were real.”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few