History is the certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."
Book Review: The Sense of an Ending
Book Review: House of Hollow
I'd realized there were scarier things in the world than the monsters that lived in my nightmares."
Book Review: The Book Thief
"Can a person steal happiness? Or is it just another internal, infernal human trick?"
Book Review: The Difficulty of Being Good
"An act of goodness might be one of the very few things of genuine worth in the world."
Book Review: The Courage to Write
"In writing, it's not the most gifted but the most determined who succeed."
Book review: Into The Wild
"He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs."
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
"What if we stopped celebrating being busy as a measurement of importance?"
Nowegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
"Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life."
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
"Sometimes the only way to learn is to live."
Walking by David Henry Thoreau
"The callous palms of the laborer are conversant with finer tissues of self-respect and heroism, whose touch thrills the heart, than the languid fingers of idleness."
