Todd

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“It set him free,” said Lee. “It gave him the right to be a man, separate from every other man.”
“That’s lonely.”
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
“What is the word again?”
“Timshel—thou mayest.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden