John

“There are three secrets to a happy life. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― John Kenney, I See You've Called in Dead

“But now he came up to himself slowly again—it was like rising through heavy water—and he was warmed by one of the great consolations: nothing very terrible lasts for very long.”
― Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

“Nights like this made her heart and mind wander, and she looked up at the sky again, drawn in by the dance floor of a million blinking lights.”
― Kate Willis, If the Stars Awaken

“I've purchased five online carts in the days since Korgy left. So many items of clothing that will inevitably wind up in a landfill somewhere, expanding my carbon footprint and contributing to global warming when in three months I'll decide I don't want them anymore, which seems like a thing I should've known to begin with, considering they were never really the thing I wanted in the first place. They were just smaller, more attainable things to want. Placeholders for the bigger, insatiable, incorrigible want underneath.”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age