Gregg Rosenthal

“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

“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

“I can’t explain why I believe that privacy is the mainspring of personhood, that the more you reveal the less there is to reveal. How the only way to pass through a hall of mirrors and know by the end which you is you is to obfuscate.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection

“... 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