Adan

“I had decided to let them see me as powerful, a person of consequence, who must be taken seriously.”
― M.H. Boroson, The Girl with Ghost Eyes

“We’re our own hardest critics and it’s easy to let ourselves down. Sleeping too late. Procrastinating. Cutting corners. More than once I’ve looked back on my high school self and thought: how did I do that? How did I work so hard? Our private insecurities follow us and will always follow us.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“patriotism. During his lifetime of study he had concluded it was the most destructive force on the planet.”
― Daniel Silva

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the bumps, sand off the sharp corners.”
― Anne Fadiman, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories