Justice may be slow and invisible, but it always renders its true verdict in the end.
– from The Underground Railroad book by Colson Whitehead
Those who deal in magic learn …
Those who deal in magic learn to see the world in a slightly different light than everyone else. You gain a perspective you had never considered before, a way of thinking that would just never have occurred to you without exposure to the things a wizard sees and hears.
– from Storm Front book by Jim Butcher
Life is our résumé. It is …
Life is our résumé. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Most people don’t do what we …
Most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.
– from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
By the time you’re my age …
By the time you’re my age, you’ll realize that everything you once thought mattered so much turns out to mean very little.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
That’s what I love about New …
That’s what I love about New York. You’re never the weirdest person in the room.
– from Book Lovers book by Emily Henry
A man without a mustache is …
A man without a mustache is exposed and vulnerable, like an unbaptized child, the soul still in jeopardy.
– from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
Bitcoin is a delicate dance between …
Bitcoin is a delicate dance between thousands of participants, all of which are acting selfishly, often with competing needs. It’s a truly free-market anarchist system with no one in particular in charge.
– from Inventing Bitcoin book by Yan Pritzker
Sometimes change is for the better …
Sometimes change is for the better, and sometimes change isn’t for the better. Modern toilets with a flush are definitely a change for the better. Self-service checkouts are definitely not. Sometimes things are a change for the better and the worse at the same time, like the internet. Or the electric keyboard. Or pre-chopped garlic. Or the theory of relativity. And a life is like that. There’s no need to fear change, or necessarily welcome it, not when you don’t have anything to lose. Change is just what life is. It is the only constant I know.
– from How to Stop Time book by Matt Haig
Friendship, companionship: it so often defied …
Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara