Quotes from book

Freedom

“I admire your capacity for admiring.”

“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”

“The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.”

“Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.”

“Use well thy freedom.”

“But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.”

“But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.”

“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”

“There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.”