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“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“They were not always in accord, but over time they developed such good communication that even their most bitter disagreements became part of their axiomatic assumption of mutual long-term ongoing love and life together.”
― Jo Walton, Or What You Will

“Canada’s slow, complicated, and expensive emigration policy, which on one level nobody can admit exists mainly to keep out Americans who are desperate for healthcare.”
― Jo Walton, Or What You Will

“America had begun as a colony and that a colony it remained, that is, a place still defined by its”
― Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

“plunder, where enrichment was paramount and civil order always an afterthought. The fatherland in whose name—and for whose benefit—the predation continued was no longer a physical fatherland but a spiritual one: the American Self. Long trained to worship its desires—however discreet, however banal—rather than question them, as the classical tradition taught, ever-tumescent American self-regard was the pillaging patria, she said, and the marauding years of the Reagan regime had only expressed this enduring reality of American life with greater clarity and transparency than ever before.”
― Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

“he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. ‘That’s why everyone hates each other nowadays,â€� he reckoned. ‘Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends. Ever heard about Dunbar’s number?â€� And then he had told her about a man called Roger Dunbar at Oxford University, who had discovered that human beings were wired to know only a hundred and fifty people, as that was the average size of hunter-gatherer communities.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“where every act of living was a chance for tikkun olam, to improve the world.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store