Grace

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”
― Samuel Johnson

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“He felt his inadequacy to the goal he had so recklessly chosen and felt the attraction of the world he had abandoned.”
― John Williams, Stoner