Liam

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84