“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives that we have imagined.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“The moment of perceiving something beautiful confers on the perceiver the gift of life.”— Elaine Scarry, amazon.com
“Each of us had something to learn from the others and something to teach in return.”— Augustine of Hippo, amazon.com
“Everything was terrifyingly complex; everything was terrifyingly simple.”— Scott Spencer, amazon.com
“I miss her, with a never-ending ache that I did not think was possible, that crowds out any other feeling and certainly all my reason, and any good sense.”— Kaitlyn Greenidge, amazon.com
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”— J.R.R Tolkein, amazon.com
“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com