The Last Contract of Isako Quotes

“People aren’t meant to see the cracks in the world. They can’t afford to, not when survival depends on believing they’re not there.”
― Fonda Lee, The Last Contract of Isako

“Life is the sun Death is the north star Both illuminate the way home. On a journey across the heavens”
― Fonda Lee, The Last Contract of Isako

“Turns out the best cure for menopausal insomnia is the exhaustion of nearly dying.”
― Fonda Lee, The Last Contract of Isako

“Fuck Earth”
― Fonda Lee, The Last Contract of Isako

“Her coda goes unfinished. Not from lack of trying. She writes and rewrites it, but nothing feels correct. On her last attempt, she thinks of Kob. I go where you can’t follow, but I take you with me. It’s the closest she comes to something that’s true, but still, it’s not perfect. She’s just not a writer.”
― Fonda Lee, The Last Contract of Isako

“Accept the outcast life and make it a virtuous one, for the worthy soul does not ask how it will enter heaven. —common Purgatorist saying”
― Fonda Lee, The Last Contract of Isako

“ennui.”
― Fonda Lee, The Last Contract of Isako

“There’s a quote from Epictetus that I think of often: ‘First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
― Fonda Lee, The Last Contract of Isako

“equanimous”
― Fonda Lee, The Last Contract of Isako

“insouciant,”
― Fonda Lee, The Last Contract of Isako

“It’s one thing to be willing to die. It’s another to give up, in painful stages, the person you thought you were.”
― Fonda Lee , The Last Contract of Isako

“untrammeled”
― Fonda Lee, The Last Contract of Isako

“Life is the sun Death is the north star Both illuminate the way home. On a journey across the heavens, what more are a few steps?”
― Fonda Lee, The Last Contract of Isako