Mae

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
― Richard Siken

“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Something good will come out of all things yet--And it will be golden and eternal just like that--There's no need to say another word.”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History