Wim Dc

“this slow dissipation, the gradual abandonment of all expectations, a defeat that had killed everything without a battle.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“But it will happen anyhow. I only wish I’d lived a more human life than I did. But it happened the way it happened, and so there’s no more to say.’ ‘I wish I could believe,’ Estelle said, ‘that there will be no sorrow in the universe I make.’ ‘Then create nothing, my dear,’ Gifford Bonner said. ‘Stay here. Creation means sorrow, always and always.’ ‘And joy,’ Estelle said. ‘Well, yes. There’s that.”
― James Blish, Cities in Flight

“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I dont recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“It’s hard to hold onto any tragedies that aren’t your own for very long.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman