Jill

“But being grateful was one thing, and being beholden, that was another thing altogether.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“How easily we forget-we in the business of storytelling- that life was the point all along.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“If you take a trait that by all appearances is a merit—a trait that is praised by pastors and poets, a trait that we have come to admire in our friends and hope to foster in our children—and you give it to some poor soul in abundance, it will almost certainly prove an obstacle to their happiness. Just as someone can be too smart for their own good, there are those who are too patient for their own good, or too hardworking.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“Because young children don’t know how things are supposed to be done, they will come to imagine that the habits of their household are the habits of the world.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway