63 Quotes by Nathan Hill

Sometime we're so wrapped up in our own story that we don't see how we're supporting characters in someone else's.

He swears. He promises. One of these days will be the day that changes everything.

If you see people as enemies or obstacles or traps, you will be at constant war with them and with yourself. Whereas if you choose to see people as puzzles, and if you see yourself as a puzzle, then you will be constantly delighted, because eventually, if you dig deep enough into anybody, if you really look under the hood of someone’s life, you will find something familiar.

But Faye’s opinion is that sometimes a crisis is not really a crisis at all – just a new beginning. Because one thing she’s learned through all this is that if a new beginning is really new, it will feel like a crisis. Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid. If you’re not afraid of it, then it’s not real change.

Sometime we’re so wrapped up in our own story that we don’t see how we’re supporting characters in someone else’s.

He would never be a musical genius, but he could be a person a musical genius loved. Such were the spoils of love, he realized, that her success was also, by some odd refraction, his.

When Samuel was a child reading a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, he’d keep a bookmark at the spot of a very hard decision, so that if the story turned out poorly, he could go back and try again. More than anything he wants life to behave this way.

Time heals many things because it sets us on trajectories that make the past seem impossible.

Every life has a moment like this, a trauma that breaks you into brand-new pieces.