Judith Engels

“it can be mortally dangerous to be yourself, and you should exercise extreme social caution at all times.”
― Tim Urban, Wait But Why, Search Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People

“You can’t love someone out of addiction, all the oceans are the tears of those who have tried. We’re not allowed to die for our children, the universe won’t let us, because then there wouldn’t be any mothers left.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“What pretensions humans have! Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them?”
― Doerr, Anthony

“Honestly, Bessie? People don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't notice anything. They are never looking at what's interesting. They're always looking at themselves.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here