title: favourite quotes
An incomplete list

date created: 2025.03.10
last modified: 2025.05.25

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"Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand.

Everything is a self-portrait.
Everything is a diary."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Diary


"Lord, I confess I want the clarity of catastrophe but not the catastrophe.
Like everyone else, I want a storm I can dance in.
I want an excuse to change my life."
- Franny Choi, Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness


"In three words, I can sum up everything I know about life: it goes on."
- Robert Frost


"You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don't know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don't need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live. That is all most animals do."
- Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built


"If you're going to climb, make it a tall mountain. The view will be so much better."
- Sosuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books


"I know your days are precious
on this earth. But what are you trying
to be free of? The living? The miraculous
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work."
- Joseph Fasano, For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper


"I never excelled academically, and took some pride in 'not fulfilling my potential', in part because I was terrified that if I tried my hardest, the world would learn that I didn't actually have that much potential"
- John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed


"One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can’t ever quite get rid of."
- John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed