Judith Engels

“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“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

“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

“You took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here