

“Beyond that, memories have a way of changing on us. Souring or sweetening over time—like a brew we drink, then recreate later by taste, only getting the ingredients mostly right. You can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea

“I don't think you turn thirty and become immune to mistake-making or lesson learning. You grow wiser (supposedly) but never omniscient. There's always something you need to be taught, and so you keep learning and you keep growing up- until you're dead.”
― Maame
― Maame

“To do what little good he can with his life. To ask for nothing more, to bow his head, pitifully grateful, God’s humble and grateful servant. Can he imagine anything less like himself? And yet here he is, defeated, relieved, forgiving everything, praying only to be forgiven.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo

“we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land

“I notice, once again, that company that’s not the right fit for you is so much lonelier than being happily alone.”
― Last Night
― Last Night
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