Niels

“After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.”
― Denis Johnson, Nobody Move

“Now he slept soundly through the nights, and often he dreamed of trains, and often of one particular train: He was on it; he could smell the coal smoke; a world went by. And then he was standing in that world as the sound of the train died away. A frail familiarity in these scenes hinted to him that they came from his childhood. Sometimes he woke to hear the sound of the Spokane International fading up the valley and realized he’d been hearing the locomotive as he dreamed.”
― Denis Johnson, Train Dreams

“You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest