A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)

When it comes down to it, when has humanity ever known what it was doing?

All anybody wants is to be appreciated by the people they think are cool,

The truest strength is shouldering the burden of care.”

We’d both been sad, and I’d assumed I knew all about his sad because I knew about mine.

You might think that I missed a big one, like “Belonging.” But I think belonging is just mutual appreciation of shared identity. It’s like a feedback loop of appreciating someone for an identity you share, which makes you appreciate yourself.

Ultimately, all beauty is transitory,

When it was fun and snarky, that was fine. But now it’s like, ‘Use your power to save humanity,’ and, like, that’s not what I signed up for, Maya. I just wanted to feel important, I didn’t want to, like, be important.”

The thought, however, is that gold has intrinsic value. This is very silly. Nothing has intrinsic value. The value of gold is just a story you tell yourselves. It’s a sticky story, though.

we all just forgot what life is supposed to be for. People haven’t adjusted.”