Bighomer

“It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge, not for any of the reasons that you hear. We give out the reasons, and we let a few of the ordinary ones in, those that would do in the world; but that's just protective coloration. Like the church in the Middle Ages, which didn't give a damn about the laity or even about God, we have our pretenses in order to survive. And we shall survive—because we have to.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Some of them were already obviously impaired in the fine art of standing up straight.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“She had flirted with alcohol for years. Now it was time to consummate the relationship.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning