Justine

“Without a future, the mind turned back in on itself. That’s not dementia. One might even say it’s the only rational response to the inevitable.”
― Derek B. Miller, Norwegian by Night

“Without you, she wrote in Hebrew, I am without any depth, I am on the surface here, waiting.”
― Colum McCann, Apeirogon

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.”
― Colum McCann, Apeirogon

“Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back in the box.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow