Chara

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“And I thought about how, actually, if you wanted to, you could say the same thing about life. That life is terrifying and overwhelming and it can happen at any moment. And when you’re confronted with life you can either be cowardly or you can be brave, but either way you’re going to live. So you might as well be brave.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books