“And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night— every nig…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“The seeds of life— fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by earthly limbs and flesh that’s born for death.”— Virgil, amazon.com
“There are limits to what even interested persons can ask of each other.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.com