Aiman

“Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K

“There are — how do you say — things in this world our philosophy cannot account for.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun