nona

“people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain’t one.”
― Stephen King, Revival

“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.”
― Stephen King, Dreamcatcher

“Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.”
― Stephen King, Dreamcatcher