Tommy Roberts

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future,’33 noted the writer Kahlil Gibran, ‘but from wanting to control it.”
― Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?: Essays on Modern Life

“It was good to put your weight on someone else, even if it was just for a short while.”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

“It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it’s the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“Who knows why people are different? We are born with a certain nature, I think. And then the world takes its swings at us.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Lucy by the Sea