Mitchell Wendling

“It was only at the moment of death that they admitted their despair and rushed headlong towards the great, dark doors that I opened for them, leaving the sterile plain where their lives had gone awry without a backward glance, eager to embrace another world which perhaps didn’t exist, but they preferred nothingness to the futile succession of empty days. And I know that at that moment, they loved me.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“(The clash between rich and poor is a hackneyed enough subject, but I am now convinced that it really is one of the eternal themes of drama.)”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“The reason is that the Premier League is a much smaller government than any of its American counterparts. It’s first and foremost a media-rights-selling organization that happens to provide twenty clubs with a platform, referees, and a match ball.”
― Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

“Mystery is fine in heaven and in poetry, but on earth, mystery signals human failure.”
― Amity Gaige, Heartwood