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Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
No one in our town came off looking great. “This is the great tragedy of California,” he wrote in the last paragraph, “for a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death—the greatest leisure of all.”
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
She was poised and thoughtful and a little messy all at once.
Satya Doyle Byock • Quarterlife
When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more but rests, satisf
... See morePaul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
“So what is the point of this story? Pauline should have married the already married fisherman?” Olive laughed. She really laughed at that. “Lucy Barton, the stories you told me—as far as I could tell—had very little point to them. Okay, okay, maybe they had subtle points to them. I don’t know what the point is to this story!” “People,” Lucy said q
... See moreElizabeth Strout • Tell Me Everything
“Motu et Lumine.” How apt. The motto from the Venetian fireplace looked simultaneously to her past and her future—and to her aim to live “with motion and light.”
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
She made sense of her long life through far-reaching travel, avid collecting, and an all-consuming pursuit of beauty, which came to form the through line of her story.