L. Reed

“All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion. They had different thoughts and beliefs. ~ on children growing up.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Re-entry taught me a new sort of fear that was slow and dull rather than quick and thrilling...the hardest part of reentry to a humdrum life was not recovering from the bad stuff. It was missing the good times, the friendship, intensity, fear, sense of purpose, the sheer exotic escapism of it all.”
― Aidan Hartley, The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands