Melon

“My father says persistence is a polite way of being annoying.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“The obvious is only obvious when it happens to someone else.”
― Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno

“I can see us there still," he said, "for those were moments so intense that in a way we will be living them always, while other things are completely forgotten. Yet there is no particular story attached to them," he said, "despite their place in the story I have just told you. That time spent swimming in the pool beneath the waterfall belongs nowhere: it is part of no sequence of events, it is only itself, in a way that nothing our life before as a family was ever itself, because it was always leading to the next thing and the next, was always contributing to our story of who we were.”
― Rachel Cusk

“How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena