Sam Alexander

“Our bodies were used to stop bullets, thought Ellwood. He could think of nothing else.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“Two could play at madness.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.”
― Toni Morrison, Tar Baby: A Novel