Connor Stompanato

“I have this desire in my gut to be liked by everybody. That always happens when nobody likes you.”
― Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl

“Death was always at your back, an infinite darkness coming to swallow you. I felt miniscule. No matter what I did, I would still be just as miniscule. But so long as I could walk, I could outrun death.”
― Wang Xiaobo, Golden Age

“But how can a man who has once strayed into Heaven ever hope to make terms with the earth! What passes for happiness with most people seemed contemptible to me. And when I tried, deliberately and sincerely, to live like the rest of them, I stored up enough remorse to last me a very long time.”
― Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes

“Maybe we all were born with trust and then lost it. Maybe we all had to find it again before we left.”
― Kassandra Montag, After the Flood