Tim

“Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”
― David Foster Wallace

“At eighteen, in a dream, he saw himself plodding through jungles, chinning up the ledges of cliffs, wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams. The peculiar thing about Everett Ruess was that he went out and did the things he dreamed about, not simply for a two-weeks’ vacation in the civilized and trimmed wonderlands, but for months and years in the very midst of wonder...”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place.”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

“Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger