John

“Truth is stranger than fishin”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“For me, all stories are fiction. The only question is: Does it rattle the soul or not?”
― Peter Orner, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live

“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

“In a sick country every step to health is an insult to those who live on its sickness.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Fixer