Alonso Barson

“It all kind of happened in a row, each step allowed the next step to happen. All because we weren’t stagnant.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“men arguing over nothing but the sheer Italian love of verbal battle and mock outrage.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

“A fixation on happiness inevitably amounts to a never-ending pursuit of “something else”—a new house, a new relationship, another child, another pay raise. And despite all of our sweat and strain, we end up feeling eerily similar to how we started: inadequate. Psychologists sometimes refer to this concept as the “hedonic treadmill”: the idea that we’re always working hard to change our life situation, but we actually never feel very different.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life