Dana Farabaugh

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”
― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

“All these stupid rocks," I say, "what’s your goal?"

"This isn't about getting something done," Denny says. "It’s about the doing, you know, the process."

"But what are you going to do with all these rocks?"

And Denny says, "I don’t know until I collect enough."

"But what’s enough?" I say.

"I don't know, dude," Denny says, "I just want the days of my life to add up to something.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke