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Book cover for One Hundred Years of Betty
Something unendurable happens, after which it is impossible to go on, and then people go on. Well, most do. When one of us shatters into a thousand pieces, that seems the natural response to tragedy. But usually, even then, we eventually ...more
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“As a rule of thumb: Never think twice about making investments in yourself.”
Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

Taylor Jenkins Reid
“God, how I wish I’d had time to find him positively mind-numbing. When you love someone so much that you’ve stuck around through all the interesting things that have happened to them and you have nothing left to say, when you know the course of their day before they even tell you, when you lie next to them and hold their hand even though they haven’t said one interesting thing in days, that’s a love I want. It’s the love I was on target for.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

Ross King
“Some four years and four weeks after Michelangelo had begun his fresco, the time had come for him to exhibit it in its entirety.”
Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

Ross King
“None of Raphael’s individual figures, no matter how expertly integrated into his graceful ensembles, came close to the brute visual force of Michelangelo’s naked titans.”
Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

Nicci French
“You have to live with doubt and uncertainty; you have to hold contradictions together and not struggle to resolve them. You have to learn that you’re not as in control of life as you might like.”
Nicci French, The Favour

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