Daniel Hesk

“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“And I started to say “fine,” and I meant to say “fine,” but I ended up saying that I felt my life was filled like a big jug to the brim with almost indescribable joy, so much that I hardly knew how to handle it.”
― John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

“Ethical counsel from the Under White Mountain people, far down the eastern coast of the Inland Sea, was not very well received. They advised: ‘Do not fight these sick people, cure them with human behavior,’ to which Rekwit responded tersely, ‘You come up north here and do that.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

“It is not easy to describe lucidly in short notes to a poem the various approaches to a fortified castle,”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire