Miranda Wright

“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase—‘I love you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn't it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world's resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive - because we are so stupid about each other.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Time to get to know my fellow patients. I don't know who I am or why I'm here, but at least I'm not alone--aaaand they're dead.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Fear makes liars of us all.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House