Toby

“Leah watches Natalie stride over to her beautiful kitchen with her beautiful child. Everything behind those French doors is full and meaningful. The gestures, the glances, the conversations that can't be heard. How do you get to be so full? And so full of only meaningful things?”
― Zadie Smith, NW

“What normally felt like the only possible world became one among many”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04

“the average number of legs in any human population is slightly less than two. So most people actually do have “more legs than average.”
― Robert H. Frank, Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

“that childhood said to have been mine the difficulty of believing in it the feeling rather of having been born octogenarian at the age when one dies in the dark”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is