Jason Eppihimer

“And I said well luckily I was mature and old enough to take this success at my age. It was bullshit.”
― Nicholas Evans

“Accepting the fact that she did indeed have Alzheimer's, that she could only bank on two unacceptably effective drugs available to treat it, and that she couldn't trade any of this in for some other, curable disease, what did she want? Assuming the in vitro procedure worked, she wanted to live to hold Anna's baby and know it was her grandchild. She wanted to see Lydia act in something she was proud of. She wanted to see Tom fall in love. She wanted one more sabbatical year with John. She wanted to read every book she could before she could no longer read.

She laughed a little, surprised at what she'd just revealed about herself. Nowhere in that list was anything about linguistics, teaching, or Harvard. She ate her last bite of cone. She wanted more sunny, seventy-degree days and ice-cream cones.”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice

“The books, raped and rummaged of their dignity, lay in heaps on the floor.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“»Nace una mosca efímera a las nueve de la mañana y muere a las cinco de la tarde: ¿cómo puede comprender la palabra noche? Concededle cinco horas más de vida, y entonces verá la noche y sabrá qué es.”
― Stendhal, Rojo y Negro