Richard Russo

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words? ↗

— Richard Russo

#friendship #friendship

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became. ↗

— Richard Russo

#inspirational #inspirational

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at. ↗

— Richard Russo

#nature

An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental. ↗

— Richard Russo

#morality #life

He’d meant to forgive his brother, maybe even imagined he had. He’d also meant to learn to trust him, but instead merely fell into the habit of waiting for him to fuck up again. ↗

— Richard Russo

#forgiveness

Max would conclude, "that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money. ↗

— Richard Russo

#money #pope #money

Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming. ↗

— Richard Russo

#age

One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them. ↗

— Richard Russo

#age

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned. ↗

— Richard Russo

#earned #famous #good #good people #hbo

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions. ↗

— Richard Russo

#even #most #perceptive #sociology