Kamilah Uihlein

“I wanted solitude, but a treasure like that didn't exist in the city. I only found silence in Central Park, still littered with people of course, but the only place that held moments of calm. I breathed in that wonderful silence as my pace finally slowed, and nature delighted my senses.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

“What was after the universe?

Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle