Tom Malinowski

“Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.”
― Geoff Dyer, Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush

“The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted; whereas the life they really want is precisely a compound of all those thwarting circumstances.”
― Geoff Dyer

“The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty