David Nicholls, Us Quotes
...grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost.
Familiarity, globalisation, cheap travel, mere weariness had diluted our sense of foreign-ness.
The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.