Yasmin Yoon

“The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment...Held up against certain ideals of success, his life has been a deep disappointment. But he can also see that it is, in the end, no great achievement simply to fixate on the failure. There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one’s life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“All will be well and all will be well, etc., etc.,

Todd”
― George Saunders

“Rain turned to sleet, sleet to snow.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life’s full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.”
― Nabokov V., Лолита