Ian

“If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”
― Tim Kreider

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis

“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men