Andrea

“These days, loneliness is the new cancer—a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don’t want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“As Booker T. Washington once put it, “You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
― Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

“I guess it’s hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.”
― Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

“From that day on, I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being, with a direct genetic link across species both living and extinct, extending back nearly four billion years to the earliest single-celled organisms on Earth.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry