Noah Gastélum

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“He was old enough now to know that within every relationship was something unfulfilled and disappointing, something that had to be sought elsewhere.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“you can lie to everybody but yourself, because when you lie to yourself, all you do is train yourself to believe in lies, which makes it easier for your opponents to feed you theirs”
― Francesco Dimitri, The Book of Hidden Things