Thin San

“Although champagne was served, the mood was curiously subdued. After this reunion, they would probably never meet together as a class again—at least not in such numbers. They would spend the next decades reading obituaries of the men who had started out in 1954 as rivals and today were leaving Harvard as brothers. This was the beginning of the end. They had met once more and just had time enough to learn that they liked one another. And to say goodbye.”
― Erich Segal, The Class

“Hogwarts isn't actually that pleasant a place when you don't fit in.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection. My brief forays into the formal ethics of analytic philosophy felt dry as a bone, missing the messiness and weight of real human life.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?”
― Rachel Carson