James

“There's something uncomfortable about looking at pictures of your parents at a time when they made each other happy.”
― Aminatta Forna, The Hired Man

“The whole state of Maine is unlocked.”
― Jonathan Lethem, Dissident Gardens

“The bassist -- always the bassist.”
― Rob Sheffield

“It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you had an old man's chest hair. It wasn't worth it.”
― Roddy Doyle, Bullfighting: Stories