John

“Human beings are creations more profound than human beings can fathom.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“This falsity around him and within him did more than anything else to poison his last days.”
― James Ryan Daley, The World's Greatest Short Stories: Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and more

“At the time you’re living it you can sometimes think your life is nothing much. It’s ordinary and everyday and should be and could be in this or that way better. It is without the perspective by which any meaning can be derived because it’s too sensual and urgent and immediate, which is the way life is to be lived. We’re all, all the time, striving, and though that means there’s a more-or-less constant supply of failure, it’s not such a terrible thing if you think that we keep on trying. There’s something to consider in that.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness