Gregg Rosenthal

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

“Anna and Tom had grown up with the notion that individuality manifested itself as a set of visual differences, immediately decodable and in constant need of updating”
― Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection

“I was old enough to know I’d be wrong about many things of which I’d once been certain, but still young enough to see possibility and perfection in new certainties.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“... there was something radically inapplicable about this whole code of ready-made honour that is still the small voice, trained to command, of the Englishman all the world.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall