Todd

“Waste no time, I implore you, in pursuing any other course, but apply yourself constantly to reading! No sacrifice of time or pleasure can ever be too great!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“They saw patched argonauts from the states driving mules through the streets on their way south through the mountains to the coast. Goldseekers. Itinerant degenerates bleeding westward like some heliotropic plague.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

“It is said that insanity is a logical response to an insane world. Maybe depression is, in part, simply a response to a life we don't really understand.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Her former efforts at trying to close the space between them had now ceased. Those affectionate attempts had been at the foundation of their marriage, and Benjamin had been touched by her exertions over the years, finding them of even more value than spontaneous love (which, he believed, was not a matter of choice or the result of labor, but merely some sort of fatal hex that reduced its victim to a passive trance).”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust