“But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.”
― Life Expectancy
― Life Expectancy
“Happiness, after all, is found in the simplest of things.”
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a lonely one.”
― Odd Hours
― Odd Hours
“Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable.
Bad men...destroy one another, although...they prefer those who are innocent and as pure as this world allows them to be. They feed on violence, but they feast on the despoiling of what is good.”
― Odd Hours
Bad men...destroy one another, although...they prefer those who are innocent and as pure as this world allows them to be. They feed on violence, but they feast on the despoiling of what is good.”
― Odd Hours
“That was the splendid thing about life: Though it was cruel, it was also mysterious, filled with wonder and surprise; sometimes the surprises were so amazing that they qualified as miraculous, and by witnessing those miracles, a despondent person could discover a reason to live, a cynic could obtain unexpected relief from ennui, and a profoundly wounded boy could find the will to heal himself and medicine for melancholy.”
― Lightning
― Lightning
Sumer’s 2025 Year in Books
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