## Metadata - Author: [[Tobias Wolff]] - Full Title: The Night in Question - Category: #books ## Highlights - Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. But there’d been no struggle. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have. ([Location 1655](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004089HXY&location=1655)) - This boardinghouse was worse than the last, unfriendly, funereal, heavy with the smells that disheartened people allow themselves to cultivate. ([Location 2603](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004089HXY&location=2603)) - and now I fastened all my will on the effort to conceal this stupidity by maintaining it. ([Location 2679](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004089HXY&location=2679))