Deborah Carr

“hope impedes adaptation.” In other words, if you're stuck with something, you learn to live with it. And the sooner you learn to live with it, the happier you will be.”
― Joseph T. Hallinan, Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average

“It never occurred to me that every life must be constantly reinvented by adventures and private jokes, and that it might, suddenly, end.”
― Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

“This is how we all come to the world, James. Weak and needy, desperate to learn how to be a person.” She smiled at him. “But if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing nothing? I think, James, that maybe it is possible to make a new way.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“If country music has taught me anything, it’s that getting drunk probably isn’t the best method of dealing with heartbreak. But I’m a traditionalist.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance