Ruth

“I did not bring a television set out here with me, and I regret it sometimes when the evenings get long, but my idea was that living alone you can soon get stuck to those flickering images and to the chair you will sit on far into the night, and then time merely passes as you let others do the moving. I do not want that. I will keep myself company.”
― Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses

“þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg!”
― Deor

“Sleeplessness does the devil’s joinery, son.”
― Max Porter, Lanny

“like a dumb pigeon's beak, I am pecking
every which way at astonishment.”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic