Eugene

“What is the truth of any life, Titch? I doubt even the man who lives it can say. You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering."
"No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“But i cannot be worrying-worrying all the time about the *truth*. I have to worry about the truth that can be *lived with*.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“What I have realized, is that the generations,' Samad continued as they sped through miles and miles of unchanging flatlands, 'they speak to each other, Jones. It's not a line, Life is not a line -- this is not palm-reading -- it's a circle, and they speak to us. That is why you cannot read fate; you must experience it.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth