J.D. Sutter

“It might seem that the person who can feel for others is doomed in life. Isn’t one person’s pain enough? Why must a person like Tress feel for two, or more? Yet I’ve found that the people who are the happiest are the ones who learn best how to feel. It takes practice, you know. Effort. And those who (late in life) have been feeling for two, three, or a thousand different people…well, turns out they’ve had a leg up on everyone else all along. Empathy is an emotional loss leader. It pays for itself eventually.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“You could almost hear the thumb of reality beginning to press down on that spot in the soul from which youthful enthusiasm springs.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“A career is what you look back on. What you live is a life.”
― Orson Scott Card, A Town Divided by Christmas

“There are few things more beautiful to an author's eye, he confessed to Billy, than a well-read copy of one of his books.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway