James

“My footsteps echoed down small-town Main Streets. On one, a pharmacist left a note in the window of her store. She had enjoyed serving the town, she wrote, but couldn’t hang on anymore and she hoped they’d understand why she was leaving like all the rest. She left no forwarding address. Walmart”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“being looked down upon is good for the soul, good for empathy, good training for a human.”
― Monica Byrne, The Girl in the Road

“So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.”
― Robin Hobb, The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate

“He had known only suspicion, cynicism, probability—never the fearful unraveling that comes when one ceases to trust in one’s own trusting power; never the dread panic that follows this unraveling; never the dull void that follows last of all.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries