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“How brief and magical it was that we all lived so close to each other and went in and out of each other’s rooms, and our most important job was to solve mysteries. The temporariness made it all the more important to do the right thing—to follow the right leads.”
― Elif Batuman, Either/Or

“I swear with my hand on this room’s most sacred book, the alphabetized telephone directory, to speak the honest truth. Namely, that human existence is a hollow sham. And that, yes, salvation is possible. In the very beginning our hollowness was incomplete. It is we who completed it through unstinting effort, piling one struggle on top of another until every last shred of meaning was worn away. I have no intention of using my writing to detail each painstaking step in this erosion. That would be a waste of my time. Those of you who want to read about that should turn to Romain Rolland’s Jean Christophe. It is all written there.”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels

“Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“The energy that, until now, had swelled up in the space between life and death turned toward a thirst for love.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1