“But people do. They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren’t the same one.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known”— Carson McCullers, carson-mccullers.com
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I know what she’s talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It’s like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don’t meet up right.”— John Green, amazon.com
“When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.”— Bill Bryson, amazon.com
“I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for awhile they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.”— Ruth Ozeki, amazon.com
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“I had forgotten how grief shapes the world around us. Time dulls the effect, but it's still there. Omnipresent.”— Beth Revis, twitter.com