Adam

“But now he knew: you always sacrificed something. The question was what you sacrificed.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“One thing I have learned is that the most effective strategy at all times and in all places--in court, in politics, and in life--is centering your heart with the most vulnerable people and animals and ecosystems, and then relentlessly telling the truth about what you see.”
― Alec Karakatsanisat

“I always had the sense, during these exchanges, that although there might not be a single correct answer, there was in fact a single incorrect one, after which he would never say anything again, and I was forever trying to calculate what that answer might be so I would never say it.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Sharing difficult truths might come with a cost—the need to face them—but there’s also a reward: freedom. The truth releases us from shame.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories