Amanda

“The writer had kept it up with monotonous and painful regularity.”
― James Siegel, Derailed

“We forgot how greedy we are, but above all we forgot how weak we are. And now it’s crushing us.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Everyone is always broadcasting to everyone else their desire to encounter the ideal.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“But after she had listened to the tale of my dream--one in which I lived alone, performed a boring job, and led a desolate life--she said, "Your dreams are not interesting. In other circumstances, they might be, but here we deal every day with matters of life and death." I knew she was right. I let her go to bed. I sat in the living room by myself.”
― Rebecca Curtis, Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money