Itsbadarly

“...and David Wallace blinks in the midst of idly scanning class photos from his 1980 Aurora West H.S. yearbook and seeing my photo and trying, through the tiny little keyhole of himself, to imagine what all must have happened to lead up to my death in the fiery single-car accident he'd read about in 1991...”
― David Foster Wallace, Oblivion

“When I got back to school in the fall, I changed my major from linguistics and didn't take any more classes in the philosophy or psychology of language. They had let me down. I hadn't learned what I wanted to about how language worked. I hadn't learned anything at all.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“They are forever, a brief and mortal forever, a forever that will grow into their bones and be held inside them after it ends, intact, indestructible.”
― Tana French, The Secret Place

“Right from the start, what I liked best about the analyst was that his office was a mess.”
― David Foster Wallace, Oblivion