Rufus Barncastle

“I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?'

'You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.'

'Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

“We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“People should die, only when they're alone. Or when they hate—not when they love.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades