Shoshanah

“Down on the street the protesters are shouting at each other, and at Lucas, but most of all they’re probably shouting just to shout. Just to be heard. Lucas stands quietly for a very, very long time, thinking about how awful it must feel: to be a person who so desperately wants something to happen. Lucas never wants anything to go on at all.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“If you ask people what they think, they start thinking, and that’s how wars start.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“What is the word for when you know everyone is taking something too seriously, that the way it’s taking over your life isn’t normal, that it’s a little ridiculous, that it’s clearly what a bunch of rich kids stuck in a decade of ivory tower schooling need in order to think of themselves as real, living people? What is the word for the displaced energy of young people chained to academia when every atom in your body is begging you to join the world? What is the word for when you think that, truly, but then start to have those beliefs replaced with earnestness?”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise

“Honestly, I think you’re just obsessed with money, Max. There’s more to life than money.” She heard the last thing he said as she walked out, though, because he shouted it at her back. “Only rich people say that!”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise