Jay D.

“Happiness comes in moments, and then it’s gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness’”—Val winked—“‘sadness settles in.”
― Dennis Lehane, Mystic River

“I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard glowing dusky orange and advertising Aruba, or a girl who bore more than a passing resemblance to a woman you’d dated in high school—a woman you’d loved and lost—danced above you with shimmering eyes, and you said, fuck it, let’s dream just one more time.”
― Dennis Lehane, Mystic River

“Nostalgia is the suffering cause by our unappeased earing to return' Whether or not, he said, the home we long for ever existed.”
― Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

“Why do I do this?”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself