reader

“A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.”
― Ben Okri

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing