Hertha Mogg

“Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“The water far below was black in the shadow of the ship. A plank creaked. She froze. No noisy jump. It would have to be a dive. Head down into darkness. She’d never dived at night.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in the sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

“It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.”
― robert musil, The Man Without Qualities: Volume One