“Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.”
—Milan Kundera, Encounter
“The path of a man’s life is straight, straight, straight, until the moment when it isn’t anymore, and after that it begins to meander around aimlessly, and then get tangled, and then at some point the path gets so confusing that the man’s ability to move around in time, his device for conveyance, his memory of what he loves, the engine that moves him forward, it can break, and he can get permanently stuck in his own history.”
—Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
“I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies
NO, RICK. HE’S NOT WORTH IT! RICK! CHILL OUT, OKAY? WE DON’T WANT ANY TROUBLE.
… JESUS, IT’S LIKE YOU’RE MADE OF MARBLE.
HOW OFTEN DO YOU WORK OUT?
RICK, I’M NOT GOING TO LIE, YOU ARE A TOTAL BEEFCAKE AND I’M WAY INTO IT.
IS THAT NEW COLOGNE?
