Nathan

“His friends were probably right when they called it a pitiful little vacant house. He wondered if that had anything to do with the emptiness of his own world.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“Sometimes, as he listened to the song or hummed it, tears brimmed in his eyes, just as in the lyrics. Strange that a man with no ties should become sentimental about a 'harbour town', but the tears welled directly from a dark, distant, enervated part of himself he had neglected all his life and couldn't command.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“How can it be justified
And how can it be right
For God to give freedom
- Sweet And Beautiful Freedom -
To give it to a stream, a fish,
A brute and a bird
And deny it to a human being!”
― Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Life Is A Dream

“you can love more than one person.” Of course you can, but marriage is something different. Marriage is memory, marriage is time. “She didn’t know the songs,”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking