“A good meal shared, a door held open, a debt remembered and repaid. These are the actual events of a life. Everything else is footnote.”
“The man who laughs at another's misfortune has simply decided his own comfort matters more than someone else's pain. That is the whole of his character.”
“Every city is a thousand private stories happening simultaneously, and you are one of them, no more or less.”
“Some days the best you can do is get through them without becoming someone you'd be ashamed of by morning.”