Thursday, September 04, 2025

"You won't understand what I mean now, but someday you will ..." – Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

"You won't understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are - not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving - and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad - or good - it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well."

– Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read ..." – James Baldwin

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. 

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

– James Baldwin