Emil Sinclair

“This was, I thought, the language of shy men, men too much alone with their reading and their ideas - politics, war, distant countries, tyrants. Men who would bury their heads in such stuff just to avert their eyes from a woman's simple heartache.”
― Alice McDermott, Someone

“He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.”
― Jocelyn Murray, The Gilded Mirror: Vesuvius Rising

“Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84