In a bustling city, there were four friends. Malcolm, the architect; JB, the painter; Willem, the actor; and Jude, the lawyer. They were young, ambitious, and intertwined in the way only young friends in a big city can be.
“That’s your head right now,” Willem said gently. “And my job isn’t to shake it harder or tell you to stop shaking. My job is just to sit here with you while it settles. You don’t have to talk. You don’t have to be fixed. Just hold the jar.” Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life
“It settled,” he said, surprised.