Harris

“By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to learn. What I learned from Naoko's death was this: no truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
― haruki murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.”
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

“People endured horrors, and then they couldn’t talk about them. The real stories of the world were bedded in silence.”
― Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

“Is that what we mean by life? Let everything fall away, and then let’s see what there is. Perhaps that is the most interesting question of all: to see what happens when there is nothing, and whether or not we will survive that too.”
― Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things