Steph

“A great emptiness. As though my body were an atom and somewhere deep within me sits a nucleus of a person so infinitesimal I’m surprised the whole thing doesn’t collapse in on itself.”
― Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

“Life quickens as you age, people told her. Those childhood years are a lifetime, then things accelerate into your twenties and thirties until each year is a month, each month a week—seasons whizzing like Catherine wheels—Christmas after Christmas—terrifying and impossible and unstoppable. But nobody warned her what happens when your husband dies at seventy-four, when you’re seventy-nine. They never told her how those next ten years will last forever. How every day is an exercise in waiting. They never told her that.”
― Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

“Time is not kind to humans”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

“Imagine for a one moment that you're in the future. Your future. These are your last moments before death.......Now, imagine I give you a final gift. You're allowed to go back. Just for twenty minutes, you're allowed to go back to the exact moment where you're reading these words. This is your twenty-minute gift. Do not waste it. You can't change your life in twenty minutes, so don't try. No-do the thing that you'll wish, on your deathbed, you could have done one last time. Something precious.”
― Ben Reeves, Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt