Autumn

“The circumstances of life-the events of life-the people around me in life-do not make me the way I am. They reveal the way I am.”
― Dan Chaon, Await Your Reply

“You know you're young when someone asks you for money and you take it as a compliment.”
― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

“No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

“But baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric - not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus pitcher, fielder versus ball. You couldn't storm around, snorting and slapping people, the way Schwartz did while playing football.You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you fucked up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see?”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding