Mariah

“Are you real brave? Just medium. What’s the bravest thing you ever did? He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“There is a kind of largeness to it, a kind of godliness. Though it’s odd, you’re never more alive than when you’re almost dead. You recognize what’s valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what’s best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost. At”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. —THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY”
― Leslie Kean, Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife

“A handsome kid, really. Sharp gray eyes, lean and narrow-waisted, and when he died it was almost beautiful, the way the sunlight came around him and lifted him up and sucked him high into a tree full of moss and vines and white blossoms.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried