Alba

“Our rich and complex international networks of production and distribution have come to an end before, but here we are, you and I, and here is humanity. What if the meaning of life on earth is not eternal progress toward some unspecified goal - the engineering and production of more and more powerful technologies, the development of more and more complex and abstruse cultural forms? What if these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of life remains the same always - just to live and be with other people?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Just as the planet still circles round its Sun, yet at the same time rotates on its own axis, so the individual partakes in the development of humanity while making his own way through life.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“No matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six