The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad

"But cultures are complex; one finds in them what one wants. If one wants to find cultural traits of hard work and thrift within East Asia, they are there. If you want instead to find a tendency toward blind obedience and nepotism, these too exist. Look hard enough and you will find all these traits in most cultures."

~Fareed Zakaria

An Abundance of Katherines

You can love someone so much, he thought. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. 

~John Green 

Le Petit Prince

"Droit devant soi on ne peut pas aller bien loin..."

~Antoine De Saint-Exupéry (said by character Le Petit Prince)

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again. 

~Azar Nafisi

Fargo

"Only a fool thinks he can save the world."

"Yeah but...you gotta try, don't you?"

~Gus Grimly (Colin Hanks)

The Fault in our Stars

"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."

~John Green (said by character Peter Van Houten)

Julius Caesar

Cassius: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves/ That we are underlings."

~Shakespeare