Gregg Rosenthal

“This is why parents want grandchildren. Really they want their own children back again, they long to feel that vanished and complete love.”
― Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven

“THERE IS NO REAL fight against death because death will always win. But death can be handled well or poorly.”
― Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

“Nothing creates untruth in you as the wish to please.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus

“First, there are the people with no particular agenda, who will take their cue from you, who will wait quietly to learn who you are. Then there is the other group, the people who will not wait, but who conjure up a personality for you out of odds and ends of their own: some bits of you, certainly, but mixed liberally with scraps of their own needs and prejudices.”
― Rebecca Wait, I’m Sorry You Feel That Way