Connor Stompanato

“I was thinking it was funny I could giggle like that because in my heart I was always sad, with the same sort of hurt that the cold gave me in my chest.”
― Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

“This is reality, this is pure fact - this forest, this moss, your hand, the ladybird on my leg, this cannot be taken away, can it? (it will, it was). This has all come together here, no matter how the paths twisted, and fooled each other, and got fouled up, they inevitably met here!”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“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

“It's very sinful, but when I'm with you, I don't need God.”
― Boris Strugatsky, Hard to Be a God