Ailleurs Quotes & Sayings

This is why she doesn't put much stock in so-called secrets, or the meaningfulness of untold recollections that become, in their airtight echo chambers, the supposed stuff of secrets. They are only a way to become retrospectively enraged at someone else so that your own adult weaknesses can be tidily excused. — Heidi Julavits

Money was invented
so we could know exactly how much we owe. — Cullen Hightower

A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. The desire to eliminate uncertainty eliminates life. — William Deresiewicz

I'm not saying I'm glad it happened. Not exactly. But I'm not sorry to be the person I am today, and to have the life I have now. Even though it's not what I thought I wanted for my future, a year ago, it is what I want now ... — Nancy Werlin

We were all over each other in the super-friendly way of puppies, or spouses meeting for the first time after one of them has undergone a close brush with death. — George Saunders

Learning is one letter short of maturity. — Eddie Mhone

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains. — David Blaine