Malia

“By their very nature, human being are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration -- and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”
― Amor Towles

“The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.”
― Ken Follett, Edge of Eternity

“Anyway, at some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“But one night near the end, as I was sitting at his bedside trying to entertain him with an anecdote about some nincompoop with whom I worked, out of the blue he shared a reflection which seemed such a non sequitur that I attributed it to delirium. Whatever setbacks he has faced in his life, he said, however daunting or dispiriting the unfolding of events, he always knew that he would make it through as long as when he woke in the morning he was looking toward his first cup of coffee. Only decades later would I realize that he has been giving me a piece of advice.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility