Katelynn Matthys

“Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s love and Langston’s humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art’s redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels.”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“Maybe time is like that insect," Blink said, "trapped beneath the crystal of your watch.”
― Brian Selznick, The Marvels

“The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions”
― Karl Marx